From: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com
commit e4d8a29997731b3bb14059024b24df9f784288d0 upstream.
If we pass too short string to "hex2bin" (and the string size without the terminating NUL character is even), "hex2bin" reads one byte after the terminating NUL character. This patch fixes it.
Note that hex_to_bin returns -1 on error and hex2bin return -EINVAL on error - so we can't just return the variable "hi" or "lo" on error. This inconsistency may be fixed in the next merge window, but for the purpose of fixing this bug, we just preserve the existing behavior and return -1 and -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@gmail.com Fixes: b78049831ffe ("lib: add error checking to hex2bin") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- lib/hexdump.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/hexdump.c +++ b/lib/hexdump.c @@ -65,10 +65,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_to_bin); int hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count) { while (count--) { - int hi = hex_to_bin(*src++); - int lo = hex_to_bin(*src++); + int hi, lo;
- if ((hi < 0) || (lo < 0)) + hi = hex_to_bin(*src++); + if (unlikely(hi < 0)) + return -1; + lo = hex_to_bin(*src++); + if (unlikely(lo < 0)) return -1;
*dst++ = (hi << 4) | lo;