From: Wouter Paesen <wouter@kangaroot.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] input/mouse/sermouse: fix memleak and potential buffer overflow
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:47:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060615104702.GA4866@tougher.kangaroot.net> (raw)
While strolling trough the sermouse driver for some example code, I
noticed 2 strange things happening there :
* In the sermouse_connect function an input device structure is
allocated (input_allocate_device), which is not deallocated
in the sermouse_disconnect function.
If I understand this correctly someone repeatedly connecting and
disconnecting the mouse would leak input_dev structures.
* In the sermouse_connect function the phys member of the sermouse
structure (32 characters) is initialised with :
sprintf(sermouse->phys, "%s/input0", serio->phys);
Because serio->phys is also a 32 character field the sprintf could
result in 39 characters being written to the sermouse->phys.
If my understanding of both these concepts is correct, this is a patch
to fix the problems.
Signed-off-by: Wouter Paesen <wouter@kangaroot.net>
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/sermouse.c 2006-06-15 08:47:47.000000000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/sermouse.c 2006-06-15 08:52:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
unsigned char count;
unsigned char type;
unsigned long last;
- char phys[32];
+ char phys[39];
};
/*
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@
serio_close(serio);
serio_set_drvdata(serio, NULL);
input_unregister_device(sermouse->dev);
+ input_free_device(sermouse->dev);
kfree(sermouse);
}
next reply other threads:[~2006-06-15 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-15 10:47 Wouter Paesen [this message]
2006-06-18 4:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-06-20 6:41 ` Wouter Paesen
2006-06-21 16:23 ` Rolf Eike Beer
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