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Commit 2c2ed8bf authored by David Jeffery's avatar David Jeffery Committed by James Bottomley
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[SCSI] st: fix possible memory use after free after MTSETBLK ioctl



A memory use after free bug can manifest if the MTSETBLK or SET_DENS_AND_BLK
ioctl features are used to set the tape's blocksize from 0 to non-zero.
After the driver sets the new block size, in this one case it calls
normalize_buffer() to free the device's internal data buffers.  However, the
ioctl code assumes there is always a buffer and does not check or allocate
a buffer if there isn't one.  So any following ioctl calls can corrupt
a part of memory by writing data to memory that the st driver had freed.

This patch removes the normalize_buffer() call and the specialness of
changing from a 0 to non-zero blocksize to fix the possible use of
memory after it has been freed by the st driver.

signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
parent 2afc95bf
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