[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 19/71] lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jun 25 10:01:58 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt14 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>

commit f18c34e483ff6b1d9866472221e4015b3a4698e4 upstream.

If the specified maximum length of the string is a multiple of unsigned
long, we would load one long behind the specified maximum.  If that
happens to be in a next page, we can hit a page fault although we were
not expected to.

Fix the off-by-one bug in the test whether we are at the end of the
specified range.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 lib/strnlen_user.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/strnlen_user.c b/lib/strnlen_user.c
index a28df5206d95..11649615c505 100644
--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const char __user *src, unsigned long count,
 			return res + find_zero(data) + 1 - align;
 		}
 		res += sizeof(unsigned long);
-		if (unlikely(max < sizeof(unsigned long)))
+		/* We already handled 'unsigned long' bytes. Did we do it all ? */
+		if (unlikely(max <= sizeof(unsigned long)))
 			break;
 		max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
 		if (unlikely(__get_user(c,(unsigned long __user *)(src+res))))




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