The patch titled
statistics infrastructure: fix string termination
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
statistics-infrastructure-fix-string-termination.patch
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Subject: statistics infrastructure: fix string termination
From: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Make sure strsep() in statistic_release_def() finds a terminanal '\0' and
doesn't attempt to access bytes outside the given buffer.
(Patch fixes
statistics-infrastructure-simplify-statistics-debugfs-write-function.patch)
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/statistic.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-fix-string-termination lib/statistic.c
--- a/lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-fix-string-termination
+++ a/lib/statistic.c
@@ -627,9 +627,10 @@ static ssize_t statistic_write_def(struc
return -EPIPE;
if (*offset + len > 16 * PAGE_SIZE)
return -ENOMEM;
- larger = kmalloc(*offset + len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ larger = kmalloc(*offset + len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!larger)
return -ENOMEM;
+ larger[*offset + len] = '\0';
memcpy(larger, seq_priv->w_buf, *offset);
if (copy_from_user(larger + *offset, buf, len))
return -EFAULT;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mp3@xxxxxxxxxx are
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-list.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-parser.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-parser-fix.patch
add-for_each_substring-and-match_substring.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-timestamp.patch
statistics-infrastructure-make-printk_clock-a-generic-kernel-wide-nsec-resolution.patch
statistics-infrastructure-documentation.patch
statistics-infrastructure.patch
statistics-infrastructure-add-for_each_substring-and-match_substring-exploitation.patch
statistics-infrastructure-fix-parsing-of-statistics-type-attribute.patch
statistics-infrastructure-simplify-statistics-debugfs-write-function.patch
statistics-infrastructure-simplify-statistics-debugfs-read-functions.patch
statistics-infrastructure-fix-string-termination.patch
statistics-infrastructure-small-cleanup-in-debugfs-write-function.patch
statistics-infrastructure-fix-cpu-hot-unplug-related-memory-leak.patch
statistics-infrastructure-exploitation-zfcp.patch
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