Description of problem:

Alan Cox has reported the following issue:

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Random auditing results

tehuti has no security checks on the do_ioctl functions and
it has ioctl methods for patch arbitary 32bit offset from
registers with arbitary 32bit value. Nasty hole

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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
From 2.6.24

  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

The Tehuti network driver first appeared in 2.6.24 version of the Linux
kernel:

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/24/drivers/net/tehuti.h

Proposed upstream patch:

http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6131a2601f42cd7fdbac0e960713396fe68af59f