The patch titled
statistics infrastructure: fix string termination
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
statistics-infrastructure-fix-string-termination.patch
This patch was dropped because it isn't in the present -mm lineup
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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;
_
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