hex2bin: fix access beyond string end
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:26:40 +0000 (11:26 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 12 May 2022 10:14:54 +0000 (12:14 +0200)
commitc419dc1f6bbe529a7e02fa98831daf255f5f6f8a
tree02f57ad16d2c19bd4b0d29ad56a621e0c0660abb
parent75a7b4fdd6eef35007c09a1aa874aa5c26a53dc3
hex2bin: fix access beyond string end

commit e4d8a29997731b3bb14059024b24df9f784288d0 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: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Fixes: b78049831ffe ("lib: add error checking to hex2bin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/hexdump.c