On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 05:25:12PM +0100, Sean Young wrote:
Greg,
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 05:09:31PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
From: Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn
[ Upstream commit 6499a0db9b0f1e903d52f8244eacc1d4be00eea2 ]
The value av7110->debi_virt is stored in DMA memory, and it is assigned to data, and thus data[0] can be modified at any time by malicious hardware. In this case, "if (data[0] < 2)" can be passed, but then data[0] can be changed into a large number, which may cause buffer overflow when the code "av7110->ci_slot[data[0]]" is used.
To fix this possible bug, data[0] is assigned to a local variable, which replaces the use of data[0].
See the discussion here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/31/479
It does not seem worthwhile merging to the stable trees.
It doesn't hurt either :)
thanks,
greg k-h