Commit 3b523a1d authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Yongqiang Liu
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hex2bin: fix access beyond string end

stable inclusion
from stable-4.19.242
commit a4981bed962f82513c878f87dc9affd157ee7cb9
category: bugfix
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5A6BA


CVE: NA

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commit e4d8a299 upstream.

If we pass too short string to "hex2bin" (and the string size without
the terminating NUL character is even), "hex2bin" reads one byte after
the terminating NUL character.  This patch fixes it.

Note that hex_to_bin returns -1 on error and hex2bin return -EINVAL on
error - so we can't just return the variable "hi" or "lo" on error.
This inconsistency may be fixed in the next merge window, but for the
purpose of fixing this bug, we just preserve the existing behavior and
return -1 and -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Fixes: b7804983 ("lib: add error checking to hex2bin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
parent 84affeaf
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