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[3.5.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "staging: speakup: avoid out-of-range access in synth_add()" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1358916138-22524-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com
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Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Jan. 23, 2013, 4:42 a.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    staging: speakup: avoid out-of-range access in synth_add()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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From c4b73e46faa12f451bf0d0d95d5bd57df6eddf07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:03:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] staging: speakup: avoid out-of-range access in synth_add()

commit 6102c48bd421074a33e102f2ebda3724e8d275f9 upstream.

Check that array index is in-bounds before accessing the synths[] array.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
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 drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
index 217fd4a..5710fc5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@  int synth_add(struct spk_synth *in_synth)
 	int i;
 	int status = 0;
 	mutex_lock(&spk_mutex);
-	for (i = 0; synths[i] != NULL && i < MAXSYNTHS; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < MAXSYNTHS && synths[i] != NULL; i++)
 		/* synth_remove() is responsible for rotating the array down */
 		if (in_synth == synths[i]) {
 			mutex_unlock(&spk_mutex);