On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:54:18 +1000 Ryan Mallon <rmallon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > strnlen_user returns the length of the string including the nul > terminator. In the case where maxlen is reached strnlen_user returns > maxlen + 1. Most callsites already check for this condition. Fix the > call to strnlen_user in fs/exec.c to check for the maxlen case. > > diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c > index 25dcbe5..e19588c 100644 > --- a/fs/exec.c > +++ b/fs/exec.c > @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, struct > user_arg_ptr argv, > goto out; > > len = strnlen_user(str, MAX_ARG_STRLEN); > - if (!len) > + if (!len || len> MAX_ARG_STRLEN) > goto out; > > ret = -E2BIG; The following call to vald_arg_len() already does this? This change will cause copy_strings() to incorrectly return -EFAULT, rather than -E2BIG. Your email client is wordwrapping and space-stuffing the patches, btw. -- 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