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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-12-31 17:00:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-12-31 17:00:29 -0800
commitde9e007d9105bf8fa613a89810feff32a43add03 (patch)
treeef7805d1e03e8648fbaca3713d1a749c27770339 /kernel
parent35f349ee082de0be45eb23926d9fc7569f5011f0 (diff)
sysctl: make sure to terminate strings with a NUL
This is a slightly more complete fix for the previous minimal sysctl string fix. It always terminates the returned string with a NUL, even if the full result wouldn't fit in the user-supplied buffer. The returned length is the full untruncated length, so that you can tell when truncation has occurred. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c25
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index e5102ea6e104..b53115b882e1 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2192,27 +2192,32 @@ int sysctl_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen, void **context)
{
- size_t l, len;
-
if (!table->data || !table->maxlen)
return -ENOTDIR;
if (oldval && oldlenp) {
- if (get_user(len, oldlenp))
+ size_t bufsize;
+ if (get_user(bufsize, oldlenp))
return -EFAULT;
- if (len) {
- l = strlen(table->data)+1;
- if (len > l) len = l;
- if (len >= table->maxlen)
+ if (bufsize) {
+ size_t len = strlen(table->data), copied;
+
+ /* This shouldn't trigger for a well-formed sysctl */
+ if (len > table->maxlen)
len = table->maxlen;
- if(copy_to_user(oldval, table->data, len))
+
+ /* Copy up to a max of bufsize-1 bytes of the string */
+ copied = (len >= bufsize) ? bufsize - 1 : len;
+
+ if (copy_to_user(oldval, table->data, copied) ||
+ put_user(0, (char __user *)(oldval + copied)))
return -EFAULT;
- if(put_user(len, oldlenp))
+ if (put_user(len, oldlenp))
return -EFAULT;
}
}
if (newval && newlen) {
- len = newlen;
+ size_t len = newlen;
if (len > table->maxlen)
len = table->maxlen;
if(copy_from_user(table->data, newval, len))