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>
Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:05:10 +0000 (15:05 -0800)
commit9d482869ef6414b388d582f498e7eac78bd2bc20
tree264d336d1fdff6e3475afbaa40bf4f58bf797e7a
parent960ac8917d6f4ef3a63e64bae1159256ff7cd72c
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