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From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	ipw2100-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ipw2x00: Write outside array bounds
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:48:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6B7DB0.7090902@gmail.com> (raw)

channel_index loops up to IPW_SCAN_CHANNELS, but is used after being
incremented. This might be able to access 1 past the end of the array

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
index 44c29b3..d1c9d6d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
@@ -6249,7 +6249,10 @@ static void ipw_add_scan_channels(struct ipw_priv *priv,
 
 				channels[channel - 1] = 1;
 				priv->speed_scan_pos++;
-				channel_index++;
+
+				if (++channel_index >= IPW_SCAN_CHANNELS)
+					break;
+
 				scan->channels_list[channel_index] = channel;
 				index =
 				    ieee80211_channel_to_index(priv->ieee, channel);

             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-25 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-25 21:48 Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-07-27  2:10 ` [PATCH] ipw2x00: Write outside array bounds Zhu Yi
2009-08-03 19:51   ` John W. Linville
2009-08-04  0:35     ` Zhu Yi

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