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video: uvesafb: Fix integer overflow in allocation

cmap->len can get close to INT_MAX/2, allowing for an integer overflow in
allocation. This uses kmalloc_array() instead to catch the condition.

Reported-by: Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect <silvio.cesare@gmail.com>
Fixes: 8bdb3a2d7df48 ("uvesafb: the driver core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Kees Cook 7 years ago
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      drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c

+ 2 - 1
drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c

@@ -1044,7 +1044,8 @@ static int uvesafb_setcmap(struct fb_cmap *cmap, struct fb_info *info)
 		    info->cmap.len || cmap->start < info->cmap.start)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
-		entries = kmalloc(sizeof(*entries) * cmap->len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		entries = kmalloc_array(cmap->len, sizeof(*entries),
+					GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!entries)
 			return -ENOMEM;