This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: speakup: avoid out-of-range access in synth_init()
to the 3.7-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:
staging-speakup-avoid-out-of-range-access-in-synth_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ae428655b826f2755a8101b27beda42a275ef8ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 14:17:45 -0500
Subject: staging: speakup: avoid out-of-range access in synth_init()
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <[email protected]>
commit ae428655b826f2755a8101b27beda42a275ef8ad upstream.
Check that array index is in-bounds before accessing the synths[] array.
Signed-off-by: Nickolai Zeldovich <[email protected]>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ int synth_init(char *synth_name)
mutex_lock(&spk_mutex);
/* First, check if we already have it loaded. */
- for (i = 0; synths[i] != NULL && i < MAXSYNTHS; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < MAXSYNTHS && synths[i] != NULL; i++)
if (strcmp(synths[i]->name, synth_name) == 0)
synth = synths[i];
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.7/staging-speakup-avoid-out-of-range-access-in-synth_add.patch
queue-3.7/staging-speakup-avoid-out-of-range-access-in-synth_init.patch
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