This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm()
to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bpf-avoid-copying-junk-bytes-in-bpf_get_current_comm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 09:15:18 PDT 2016
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:02:33 -0800
Subject: bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm()
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit cdc4e47da8f4c32eeb6b2061a8a834f4362a12b7 ]
Lots of places in the kernel use memcpy(buf, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); but
the result is typically passed to print("%s", buf) and extra bytes
after zero don't cause any harm.
In bpf the result of bpf_get_current_comm() is used as the part of
map key and was causing spurious hash map mismatches.
Use strlcpy() to guarantee zero-terminated string.
bpf verifier checks that output buffer is zero-initialized,
so even for short task names the output buffer don't have junk bytes.
Note it's not a security concern, since kprobe+bpf is root only.
Fixes: ffeedafbf023 ("bpf: introduce current->pid, tgid, uid, gid, comm accessors")
Reported-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static u64 bpf_get_current_comm(u64 r1,
if (!task)
return -EINVAL;
- memcpy(buf, task->comm, min_t(size_t, size, sizeof(task->comm)));
+ strlcpy(buf, task->comm, min_t(size_t, size, sizeof(task->comm)));
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ast@xxxxxx are
queue-4.5/bpf-avoid-copying-junk-bytes-in-bpf_get_current_comm.patch
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