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* framebuffer bugfix
@ 2004-04-09 16:56 Arjan van de Ven
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From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2004-04-09 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel

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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