While testing a kernel with memory poisoning enabled, I saw some warnings about the redzone getting clobbered when chasing DFS referrals. The buffer allocation for the unicode converted version of the searchName is too small and needs to take null termination into account. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c index 9395928..824df14 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c @@ -3992,7 +3992,8 @@ parse_DFS_referrals(TRANSACTION2_GET_DFS_REFER_RSP *pSMBr, node->flags = le16_to_cpu(pSMBr->DFSFlags); if (is_unicode) { - __le16 *tmp = kmalloc(strlen(searchName)*2, GFP_KERNEL); + __le16 *tmp = kmalloc(strlen(searchName)*2 + 2, + GFP_KERNEL); cifsConvertToUCS((__le16 *) tmp, searchName, PATH_MAX, nls_codepage, remap); node->path_consumed = hostlen_fromUCS(tmp, -- 1.5.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html