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author | Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> | 2008-08-31 17:25:49 +0200 |
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committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2008-09-01 20:24:24 +0200 |
commit | 27df6f25ff218072e0e879a96beeb398a79cdbc8 (patch) | |
tree | 92156018e74a963b2abb94bd51a7e7d6b6a72f34 /mm/maccess.c | |
parent | nfsd: fix compound state allocation error handling (diff) | |
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sunrpc: fix possible overrun on read of /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports
Vegard Nossum reported
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> I noticed that something weird is going on with /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports.
> This file is generated in net/sunrpc/sysctl.c, function proc_do_xprt(). When
> I "cat" this file, I get the expected output:
> $ cat /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports
> tcp 1048576
> udp 32768
> But I think that it does not check the length of the buffer supplied by
> userspace to read(). With my original program, I found that the stack was
> being overwritten by the characters above, even when the length given to
> read() was just 1.
David Wagner added (among other things) that copy_to_user could be
probably used here.
Ingo Oeser suggested to use simple_read_from_buffer() here.
The conclusion is that proc_do_xprt doesn't check for userside buffer
size indeed so fix this by using Ingo's suggestion.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Cc: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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