[PATCH 3.8 15/81] can: kvaser_usb: check number of channels returned by HW

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Mar 25 17:15:28 UTC 2014


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

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From: Olivier Sobrie <olivier at sobrie.be>

commit 862474f8b46f6c1e600d4934e40ba40646c696ec upstream.

It is needed to check the number of channels returned by the HW because it
cannot be greater than MAX_NET_DEVICES otherwise it will crash.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Sobrie <olivier at sobrie.be>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c
index 431f07e..c303dbf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c
@@ -474,6 +474,8 @@ static int kvaser_usb_get_card_info(struct kvaser_usb *dev)
 		return err;
 
 	dev->nchannels = msg.u.cardinfo.nchannels;
+	if (dev->nchannels > MAX_NET_DEVICES)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.2





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