[MTD] slram: Handle negative devlength correctly
authorRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:15:13 +0000 (00:15 +0100)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:24:21 +0000 (12:24 +1100)
A negative devlength won't get noticed and clean up:

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
drivers/mtd/devices/slram.c

index a425d09f35a02fd9f3fbd2f0ff9df68019ba11e3..00248e81ecd5b3350a71a3c5e5e79c03be7af088 100644 (file)
@@ -267,22 +267,28 @@ static int parse_cmdline(char *devname, char *szstart, char *szlength)
        if (*(szlength) != '+') {
                devlength = simple_strtoul(szlength, &buffer, 0);
                devlength = handle_unit(devlength, buffer) - devstart;
+               if (devlength < devstart)
+                       goto err_out;
+
+               devlength -= devstart;
        } else {
                devlength = simple_strtoul(szlength + 1, &buffer, 0);
                devlength = handle_unit(devlength, buffer);
        }
        T("slram: devname=%s, devstart=0x%lx, devlength=0x%lx\n",
                        devname, devstart, devlength);
-       if ((devstart < 0) || (devlength < 0) || (devlength % SLRAM_BLK_SZ != 0)) {
-               E("slram: Illegal start / length parameter.\n");
-               return(-EINVAL);
-       }
+       if (devlength % SLRAM_BLK_SZ != 0)
+               goto err_out;
 
        if ((devstart = register_device(devname, devstart, devlength))){
                unregister_devices();
                return((int)devstart);
        }
        return(0);
+
+err_out:
+       E("slram: Illegal length parameter.\n");
+       return(-EINVAL);
 }
 
 #ifndef MODULE