[PATCH 3.11 012/121] [media] mxl111sf: Fix unintentional garbage stack read

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Feb 21 12:47:16 UTC 2014


3.11.10.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Jones <davej at fedoraproject.org>

commit 866e8d8a9dc1ebb4f9e67197e264ac2df81f7d4b upstream.

mxl111sf_read_reg takes an address of a variable to write to as an argument.
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-gpio.c:mxl111sf_config_pin_mux_modes
passes several uninitialized stack variables to this routine, expecting
them to be filled in.  In the event that something unexpected happens when
reading from the chip, we end up doing a pr_debug of the value passed in,
revealing whatever garbage happened to be on the stack.

Change the pr_debug to match what happens in the 'success' case, where we
assign buf[1] to *data.

Spotted with Coverity (Bugs 731910 through 731917)

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej at fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky at linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
index 2627553..3b948e3 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ int mxl111sf_read_reg(struct mxl111sf_state *state, u8 addr, u8 *data)
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	pr_debug("R: (0x%02x, 0x%02x)\n", addr, *data);
+	pr_debug("R: (0x%02x, 0x%02x)\n", addr, buf[1]);
 fail:
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.9.0





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