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Harden CMD_SUBMIT path to handle malicious input that could trigger large memory allocations. Add checks to validate transfer_buffer_length and number_of_packets to protect against bad input requesting for unbounded memory allocations. Validate early in get_pipe() and return failure. Reported-by: Secunia Research <vuln@secunia.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
TODO: - more discussion about the protocol - testing - review of the userspace interface - document the protocol Please send patches for this code to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>