[PATCH] powerpc/crash: Rearrange loop condition to avoid out of bounds array access

Suraj Jitindar Singh sjitindarsingh at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 14:17:31 AEST 2016


The array crash_shutdown_handles[] has size CRASH_HANDLER_MAX, thus when
we loop over the elements of the list we check crash_shutdown_handles[i]
&& i < CRASH_HANDLER_MAX. However this means that when we increment i to
CRASH_HANDLER_MAX we will perform an out of bound array access checking
the first condition before exiting on the second condition.

To avoid the out of bounds access, simply reorder the loop conditions.

Fixes Coverity bug #128232

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
index 888bdf1..47b63de 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ void default_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	old_handler = __debugger_fault_handler;
 	__debugger_fault_handler = handle_fault;
 	crash_shutdown_cpu = smp_processor_id();
-	for (i = 0; crash_shutdown_handles[i] && i < CRASH_HANDLER_MAX; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < CRASH_HANDLER_MAX && crash_shutdown_handles[i]; i++) {
 		if (setjmp(crash_shutdown_buf) == 0) {
 			/*
 			 * Insert syncs and delay to ensure
-- 
2.5.5



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