This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fs-partitions-validate-map_count-in-mac-partition-tables.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From fa7ea87a057958a8b7926c1a60a3ca6d696328ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timo Warns <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:27:40 +0100
Subject: fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables
From: Timo Warns <[email protected]>
commit fa7ea87a057958a8b7926c1a60a3ca6d696328ed upstream.
Validate number of blocks in map and remove redundant variable.
Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/partitions/mac.c | 17 +++++++++--------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/partitions/mac.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/mac.c
@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ static inline void mac_fix_string(char *
int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
{
- int slot = 1;
Sector sect;
unsigned char *data;
- int blk, blocks_in_map;
+ int slot, blocks_in_map;
unsigned secsize;
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
int found_root = 0;
@@ -59,10 +58,14 @@ int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitio
put_dev_sector(sect);
return 0; /* not a MacOS disk */
}
- strlcat(state->pp_buf, " [mac]", PAGE_SIZE);
blocks_in_map = be32_to_cpu(part->map_count);
- for (blk = 1; blk <= blocks_in_map; ++blk) {
- int pos = blk * secsize;
+ if (blocks_in_map < 0 || blocks_in_map >= DISK_MAX_PARTS) {
+ put_dev_sector(sect);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ strlcat(state->pp_buf, " [mac]", PAGE_SIZE);
+ for (slot = 1; slot <= blocks_in_map; ++slot) {
+ int pos = slot * secsize;
put_dev_sector(sect);
data = read_part_sector(state, pos/512, §);
if (!data)
@@ -113,13 +116,11 @@ int mac_partition(struct parsed_partitio
}
if (goodness > found_root_goodness) {
- found_root = blk;
+ found_root = slot;
found_root_goodness = goodness;
}
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_PMAC */
-
- ++slot;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PMAC
if (found_root_goodness)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/fs-partitions-validate-map_count-in-mac-partition-tables.patch
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