On 2013-07-19 21:20:07 (+0530), Sateesh Kumar <sateesh.kumar@redpinesignals.com> wrote:
I am declaring an array of 200 bytes as destination in ioctl processing function itself even i am sending 12 bytes from application. Here is the sample code how i am doing in kernel.
ioctl_process(struct iwreq *wrq) { uint8 buffer[200]; copy_from_user(buffer, wrq->u.data.pointer, wrq->u.data.length); //This line itself is causing the problem for me. }
I'll quote the error message you got here:
"call to ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct"
It looks very much like you're taking a user supplied size (wrq->u.data.length) and trusting it to be less than 200. That's bad. Don't do that. It'll let any user panic or exploit your system. A simple check (if wrq->u.data.length > 200 return -E2BIG;) would probably be sufficient. (You'll also want to check the return value of copy_from_user().) Regards, Kristof