Re: Out-of-bound access in sysrq

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Mar 28 2013 - 09:29:01 EST


On 03/28/2013 02:19 PM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On 13-03-28 04:34 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> how is this supposed to work?
>>
>> #define SYSRQ_KEY_RESET_MAX 20 /* Should be plenty */
>> static unsigned short sysrq_reset_seq[SYSRQ_KEY_RESET_MAX];
>> ...
>> unsigned short platform_sysrq_reset_seq[] __weak = { KEY_RESERVED };
>> ...
>> static inline void sysrq_register_handler(void)
>> {
>> ...
>> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sysrq_reset_seq); i++) {
>> key = platform_sysrq_reset_seq[i];
>> if (key == KEY_RESERVED || key > KEY_MAX)
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> i runs from 0 to 19 incl., but platform_sysrq_reset_seq, if not
>> overriden, is of size 1, so?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>
> Unless I'm missing something, 'i' won't go higher than '0' since the
> first element of platform_sysrq_reset_seq is set to KEY_RESERVED and in
> such case the 'break' is executed.

Of course, I was apparently sleeping yet. Sorry for the noise!

--
js
suse labs
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