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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2018-03-27 14:06:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-03-28 13:23:54 +0200 |
| commit | b5b38200ebe54879a7264cb6f33821f61c586a7e (patch) | |
| tree | 80880ee96abcb2a7ce8edbdca6de36d224998157 /drivers/char/mem.c | |
| parent | b24d0d5b12a678b96676348976982686fbe222b4 (diff) | |
/dev/mem: Avoid overwriting "err" in read_mem()
Successes in probe_kernel_read() would mask failures in copy_to_user()
during read_mem().
Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Fixes: 22ec1a2aea73 ("/dev/mem: Add bounce buffer for copy-out")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/mem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/mem.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c index 052011bcf100..ffeb60d3434c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static ssize_t read_mem(struct file *file, char __user *buf, while (count > 0) { unsigned long remaining; - int allowed; + int allowed, probe; sz = size_inside_page(p, count); @@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ static ssize_t read_mem(struct file *file, char __user *buf, if (!ptr) goto failed; - err = probe_kernel_read(bounce, ptr, sz); + probe = probe_kernel_read(bounce, ptr, sz); unxlate_dev_mem_ptr(p, ptr); - if (err) + if (probe) goto failed; remaining = copy_to_user(buf, bounce, sz); |