2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>

commit 2949ad50711cc161721cf788711722eeeca33764 upstream.

File position is not controlled, it may lead to overwrites of arbitrary
kernel memory.  Also the code may kfree() the same pointer multiple
times.

One more flaw is still present: if multiple processes open the file then
all 3 static variables are shared, leading to various race conditions.
They should be moved to file->private_data.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/acpi/debugfs.c |   20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *fil
                        size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
        static char *buf;
-       static int uncopied_bytes;
+       static u32 max_size;
+       static u32 uncopied_bytes;
+
        struct acpi_table_header table;
        acpi_status status;
 
@@ -37,19 +39,24 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *fil
                if (copy_from_user(&table, user_buf,
                                   sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)))
                        return -EFAULT;
-               uncopied_bytes = table.length;
-               buf = kzalloc(uncopied_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
+               uncopied_bytes = max_size = table.length;
+               buf = kzalloc(max_size, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!buf)
                        return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
-       if (uncopied_bytes < count) {
-               kfree(buf);
+       if (buf == NULL)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
+       if ((*ppos > max_size) ||
+           (*ppos + count > max_size) ||
+           (*ppos + count < count) ||
+           (count > uncopied_bytes))
                return -EINVAL;
-       }
 
        if (copy_from_user(buf + (*ppos), user_buf, count)) {
                kfree(buf);
+               buf = NULL;
                return -EFAULT;
        }
 
@@ -59,6 +66,7 @@ static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *fil
        if (!uncopied_bytes) {
                status = acpi_install_method(buf);
                kfree(buf);
+               buf = NULL;
                if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
                        return -EINVAL;
                add_taint(TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE);


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