On Tue 2020-09-01 18:35:23, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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 :)
Update stable kernel rules.
If "patch does not match description and is pretty obviously useless" but "does not hurt" is acceptable for stable tree, people should know.
You are pushing known junk into stable. Stop that. Pavel