[PATCH 26/74] staging: speakup: avoid out-of-range access in synth_add()

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Thu Jan 24 03:26:38 UTC 2013


3.5.7.4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>

commit 6102c48bd421074a33e102f2ebda3724e8d275f9 upstream.

Check that array index is in-bounds before accessing the synths[] array.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai at csail.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
index 217fd4a..5710fc5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ int synth_add(struct spk_synth *in_synth)
 	int i;
 	int status = 0;
 	mutex_lock(&spk_mutex);
-	for (i = 0; synths[i] != NULL && i < MAXSYNTHS; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < MAXSYNTHS && synths[i] != NULL; i++)
 		/* synth_remove() is responsible for rotating the array down */
 		if (in_synth == synths[i]) {
 			mutex_unlock(&spk_mutex);
-- 
1.7.9.5





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