From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: framebuffer bugfix
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 18:56:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040409165619.GB10291@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
Hi,
patch below fixes a thinko in the frame buffer drivers;
the code does
cursor.image.data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
....
cursor.mask = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
....
if (copy_from_user(&cursor.image.data, sprite->image.data, size) ||
copy_from_user(cursor.mask, sprite->mask, size)) {
....
where it's clear that the & in the first copy_from_user is utterly bogus
since the destination is the content of the newly allocated buffer, and not
the pointer to it as the code does....
--- linux-2.6.5/drivers/video/fbmem.c~ 2004-04-09 18:51:01.626902984 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/video/fbmem.c 2004-04-09 18:51:01.626902984 +0200
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@
return -ENOMEM;
}
- if (copy_from_user(&cursor.image.data, sprite->image.data, size) ||
+ if (copy_from_user(cursor.image.data, sprite->image.data, size) ||
copy_from_user(cursor.mask, sprite->mask, size)) {
kfree(cursor.image.data);
kfree(cursor.mask);
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