[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "isdnloop: Validate NUL-terminated strings from user." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    isdnloop: Validate NUL-terminated strings from user.

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.22.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 05d165e2f2c0207eb8902d65343530c4a9186517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?YOSHIFUJI=20Hideaki=20/=20=E5=90=89=E8=97=A4=E8=8B=B1?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=E6=98=8E?= <yoshfuji at linux-ipv6.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:48:42 +0900
Subject: isdnloop: Validate NUL-terminated strings from user.

[ Upstream commit 77bc6bed7121936bb2e019a8c336075f4c8eef62 ]

Return -EINVAL unless all of user-given strings are correctly
NUL-terminated.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji at linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c b/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c
index 02125e6..e1f8748 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c
@@ -1070,6 +1070,12 @@ isdnloop_start(isdnloop_card *card, isdnloop_sdef *sdefp)
 		return -EBUSY;
 	if (copy_from_user((char *) &sdef, (char *) sdefp, sizeof(sdef)))
 		return -EFAULT;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+		if (!memchr(sdef.num[i], 0, sizeof(sdef.num[i])))
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&card->isdnloop_lock, flags);
 	switch (sdef.ptype) {
 	case ISDN_PTYPE_EURO:
--
1.8.3.2