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[3.19.y-ckt,stable] Patch "iio: accel: sca3000: memory corruption in sca3000_read_first_n_hw_rb()" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1447370066-30066-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
State New
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Kamal Mostafa Nov. 12, 2015, 11:14 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iio: accel: sca3000: memory corruption in sca3000_read_first_n_hw_rb()

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt10.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From a7f05c38426c4b664335a07a1ad9da637d1e14f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 22:16:42 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 064/120] iio: accel: sca3000: memory corruption in
 sca3000_read_first_n_hw_rb()

commit eda7d0f38aaf50dbb2a2de15e8db386c4f6f65fc upstream.

"num_read" is in byte units but we are write u16s so we end up write
twice as much as intended.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c
index 1578276..17306a9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@  static int sca3000_read_first_n_hw_rb(struct iio_buffer *r,
 	if (ret)
 		goto error_ret;

-	for (i = 0; i < num_read; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < num_read / sizeof(u16); i++)
 		*(((u16 *)rx) + i) = be16_to_cpup((__be16 *)rx + i);

 	if (copy_to_user(buf, rx, num_read))