ldm: corrupted partition table can cause kernel oops
authorTimo Warns <Warns@pre-sense.de>
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:44:21 +0000 (14:44 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:47:05 +0000 (09:47 -0500)
commit9723799aad5d12ac9eb833bdc5abd19b91a3bd67
tree4875024650401bec3862610ba6280d9c59d551b3
parent484d82b6e2e4239ba7a722e0c532e9aff64be51a
ldm: corrupted partition table can cause kernel oops

commit 294f6cf48666825d23c9372ef37631232746e40d upstream.

The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices.
The code for evaluating LDM partitions (in fs/partitions/ldm.c) contains
a bug that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted LDM partitions.  A
kernel subsystem seems to crash, because, after the oops, the kernel no
longer recognizes newly connected storage devices.

The patch changes ldm_parse_vmdb() to Validate the value of vblk_size.

Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Acked-by: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/partitions/ldm.c