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authorPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>2005-10-07 16:43:50 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2005-10-10 11:50:54 -0700
commit28f2367459dea7e7d56f16b9528691797e9cbd88 (patch)
treeaaaf2a659d1c3047fde6ba73cef9f17cfa84d39e
parent910573c7c4aced8fd5f45c334cc67862e3424d92 (diff)
[PATCH] orinoco: Information leakage due to incorrect padding
The orinoco driver can send uninitialized data exposing random pieces of the system memory. This happens because data is not padded with zeroes when its length needs to be increased. Reported by Meder Kydyraliev <meder@o0o.nu> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
index aabcdc2be05..e5628207ca2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -502,9 +502,14 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
return 0;
}
- /* Length of the packet body */
- /* FIXME: what if the skb is smaller than this? */
- len = max_t(int,skb->len - ETH_HLEN, ETH_ZLEN - ETH_HLEN);
+ /* Check packet length, pad short packets, round up odd length */
+ len = max_t(int, ALIGN(skb->len, 2), ETH_ZLEN);
+ if (skb->len < len) {
+ skb = skb_padto(skb, len);
+ if (skb == NULL)
+ goto fail;
+ }
+ len -= ETH_HLEN;
eh = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data;
@@ -556,8 +561,7 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
p = skb->data;
}
- /* Round up for odd length packets */
- err = hermes_bap_pwrite(hw, USER_BAP, p, ALIGN(data_len, 2),
+ err = hermes_bap_pwrite(hw, USER_BAP, p, data_len,
txfid, data_off);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d writing packet to BAP\n",