Re: out of bounds read in drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> writes:

> Static analysis with CoverityScan picked up an out of bounds read issue
> that has been in the Raylink wireless LAN card driver since it appeared
> in the kernel:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c:
>
> accessing org[3] is out of bounds, the array has just 3 elements.
>
>  959                if (proto == htons(ETH_P_AARP) || proto ==
> htons(ETH_P_IPX)) {
>  960                        /* This is the selective translation table,
> only 2 entries */
>
>     CID undefined (#1 of 1): Out-of-bounds read
>     overrun-local: Overrunning array of 3 bytes at byte offset 3 by
> dereferencing pointer &((struct snaphdr_t *)ptx->var)->org[3].
>
>  961                        writeb(0xf8,
>  962                               &((struct snaphdr_t __iomem
> *)ptx->var)->org[3]);
>  963                }
>
> I suspect the org[3] is a typo and should be org[2], but I don't have
> any info on the H/W so I'm speculating that this is the issue. Any ideas
> anyone?

I have never heard anyone using this driver so I suspect you won't get
any help with testing. Just send a patch fixing the issue, and if it
breaks something then at least we know someone is using the driver :)

-- 
Kalle Valo