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author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2008-02-26 09:57:11 -0600 |
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committer | Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@opteron.9grid.us> | 2008-05-14 19:23:25 -0500 |
commit | b32a09db4fb9a87246ba4e7726a979ac4709ad97 (patch) | |
tree | b84cf43745c329ccbcbd2671da91e729db8132ca /lib | |
parent | dd286422fefdcff784e8d336deeb88ce817e14db (diff) | |
download | lwn-b32a09db4fb9a87246ba4e7726a979ac4709ad97.tar.gz lwn-b32a09db4fb9a87246ba4e7726a979ac4709ad97.zip |
add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust
match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.
There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options(). I believe it currently
can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.
The source string is a substing of the mount options. The kernel silently
truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero. See
compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().
The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.
We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. PATH_MAX is 4096. As far as
I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096.
Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct. It
doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/parser.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lib/parser.c b/lib/parser.c index 703c8c13b346..4f0cbc03e0e8 100644 --- a/lib/parser.c +++ b/lib/parser.c @@ -182,18 +182,25 @@ int match_hex(substring_t *s, int *result) } /** - * match_strcpy: - copies the characters from a substring_t to a string - * @to: string to copy characters to. - * @s: &substring_t to copy + * match_strlcpy: - Copy the characters from a substring_t to a sized buffer + * @dest: where to copy to + * @src: &substring_t to copy + * @size: size of destination buffer * - * Description: Copies the set of characters represented by the given - * &substring_t @s to the c-style string @to. Caller guarantees that @to is - * large enough to hold the characters of @s. + * Description: Copy the characters in &substring_t @src to the + * c-style string @dest. Copy no more than @size - 1 characters, plus + * the terminating NUL. Return length of @src. */ -void match_strcpy(char *to, const substring_t *s) +size_t match_strlcpy(char *dest, const substring_t *src, size_t size) { - memcpy(to, s->from, s->to - s->from); - to[s->to - s->from] = '\0'; + size_t ret = src->to - src->from; + + if (size) { + size_t len = ret >= size ? size - 1 : ret; + memcpy(dest, src->from, len); + dest[len] = '\0'; + } + return ret; } /** @@ -206,9 +213,10 @@ void match_strcpy(char *to, const substring_t *s) */ char *match_strdup(const substring_t *s) { - char *p = kmalloc(s->to - s->from + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + size_t sz = s->to - s->from + 1; + char *p = kmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL); if (p) - match_strcpy(p, s); + match_strlcpy(p, s, sz); return p; } @@ -216,5 +224,5 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_token); EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_int); EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_octal); EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_hex); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_strcpy); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_strlcpy); EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_strdup); |