[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "iscsi-target: Fix tfc_tpg_nacl_auth_cit configfs length overflow" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jul 16 22:54:01 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iscsi-target: Fix tfc_tpg_nacl_auth_cit configfs length overflow

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From c430344177e8e8fe1b6a6b999b3795594c49210e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rn=20Engel?= <joern at logfs.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:35:11 -0400
Subject: iscsi-target: Fix tfc_tpg_nacl_auth_cit configfs length overflow

commit 0fbfc46fb0b2f543a8b539e94c6c293ebc0b05a6 upstream.

This patch fixes a potential buffer overflow while processing
iscsi_node_auth input for configfs attributes within NodeACL
tfc_tpg_nacl_auth_cit context.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c
index 78d75c8..56064a0 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static ssize_t __iscsi_##prefix##_store_##name(				\
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))					\
 		return -EPERM;						\
 									\
-	snprintf(auth->name, PAGE_SIZE, "%s", page);			\
+	snprintf(auth->name, sizeof(auth->name), "%s", page);		\
 	if (!strncmp("NULL", auth->name, 4))				\
 		auth->naf_flags &= ~flags;				\
 	else								\
--
1.8.1.2





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