[patch] cifs: writing past end of struct in cifs_convert_address()
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Mar 1 00:06:52 MST 2012
"s6->sin6_scope_id" is an int bits but strict_strtoul() writes a long
so this can corrupt memory on 64 bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
index 73e47e8..cab99b5 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
@@ -197,8 +197,7 @@ cifs_convert_address(struct sockaddr *dst, const char *src, int len)
memcpy(scope_id, pct + 1, slen);
scope_id[slen] = '\0';
- rc = strict_strtoul(scope_id, 0,
- (unsigned long *)&s6->sin6_scope_id);
+ rc = kstrtouint(scope_id, 0, &s6->sin6_scope_id);
rc = (rc == 0) ? 1 : 0;
}
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