From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:03:10 +0000 Subject: [patch] wan/x25_asy: integer overflow in x25_asy_change_mtu() Message-Id: <20140717080310.GB477@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org If "newmtu * 2 + 4" is too large then it can cause an integer overflow leading to memory corruption. Btw, "newmtu" is not allowed to be a negative number because of the check in dev_set_mtu(), so that's ok. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c b/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c index 5895f19..f04c8c1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c @@ -122,8 +122,11 @@ static int x25_asy_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int newmtu) { struct x25_asy *sl = netdev_priv(dev); unsigned char *xbuff, *rbuff; - int len = 2 * newmtu; + int len; + if (newmtu > INT_MAX / 2 - 4) + return -EINVAL; + len = 2 * newmtu; xbuff = kmalloc(len + 4, GFP_ATOMIC); rbuff = kmalloc(len + 4, GFP_ATOMIC);