The patch titled
Subject: bpf-bpf_seq_printf-handle-potentially-unsafe-format-string-better-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
bpf-bpf_seq_printf-handle-potentially-unsafe-format-string-better-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/bpf-bpf_seq_printf-handle-potentially-unsafe-format-string-better-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/bpf-bpf_seq_printf-handle-potentially-unsafe-format-string-better-fix.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: bpf-bpf_seq_printf-handle-potentially-unsafe-format-string-better-fix
use strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(), per Christoph
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 9 ++-------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c~bpf-bpf_seq_printf-handle-potentially-unsafe-format-string-better-fix
+++ a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -597,13 +597,8 @@ BPF_CALL_5(bpf_seq_printf, struct seq_fi
}
unsafe_ptr = (void *)(long)args[fmt_cnt];
- if ((unsigned long)unsafe_ptr < TASK_SIZE) {
- err = strncpy_from_user_nofault(
- bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt], unsafe_ptr,
- MAX_SEQ_PRINTF_STR_LEN);
- } else {
- err = -EFAULT;
- }
+ err = strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt],
+ unsafe_ptr, MAX_SEQ_PRINTF_STR_LEN);
if (err < 0)
bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt][0] = '\0';
params[fmt_cnt] = (u64)(long)bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt];
_
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