3.13.11.9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 71b1fb5c4473a5b1e601d41b109bdfe001ec82e0 upstream. /proc/<pid>/cgroup contains one cgroup path on each line. If cgroup names are allowed to contain "\n", applications cannot parse /proc/<pid>/cgroup safely. Signed-off-by: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> [ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: fixed in cgroup_create() ] Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index b44dd49..8e5e0a9 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4350,6 +4350,11 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, struct cgroup_subsys *ss; struct super_block *sb = root->sb; + /* Do not accept '\n' to prevent making /proc/<pid>/cgroup unparsable. + */ + if (strchr(dentry->d_name.name, '\n')) + return -EINVAL; + /* allocate the cgroup and its ID, 0 is reserved for the root */ cgrp = kzalloc(sizeof(*cgrp), GFP_KERNEL); if (!cgrp) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html