s390/archrandom: add parameter check for s390_arch_random_generate
A review of the code showed, that this function which is exposed within the whole kernel should do a parameter check for the amount of bytes requested. If this requested bytes is too high an unsigned int overflow could happen causing this function to try to memcpy a really big memory chunk. This is not a security issue as there are only two invocations of this function from arch/s390/include/asm/archrandom.h and both are not exposed to userland. Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
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