The patch titled
autofs4: remove string terminator check
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
autofs4-remove-string-terminator-check.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: autofs4: remove string terminator check
From: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Remove unnecessary string terminator check.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 20 --------------------
1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c~autofs4-remove-string-terminator-check fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
--- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c~autofs4-remove-string-terminator-check
+++ a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
@@ -51,18 +51,6 @@ static int check_name(const char *name)
}
/*
- * Check a string doesn't overrun the chunk of
- * memory we copied from user land.
- */
-static int invalid_str(char *str, void *end)
-{
- while ((void *) str <= end)
- if (!*str++)
- return 0;
- return -EINVAL;
-}
-
-/*
* Check that the user compiled against correct version of autofs
* misc device code.
*
@@ -143,14 +131,6 @@ static int validate_dev_ioctl(int cmd, s
cmd);
goto out;
}
-
- err = invalid_str(param->path,
- (void *) ((size_t) param + param->size));
- if (err) {
- AUTOFS_WARN("invalid path supplied for cmd(0x%08x)",
- cmd);
- goto out;
- }
}
err = 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from raven@xxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
autofs4-correct-offset-mount-expire-check.patch
autofs4-collect-version-check-return.patch
autofs4-collect-version-check-return-checkpatch-fixes.patch
autofs4-remove-string-terminator-check.patch
autofs4-improve-parameter-usage.patch
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