[PATCH 2/2] partitions/aix: append null character to print data from disk

Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mfo at canonical.com
Wed Aug 15 20:58:15 UTC 2018


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787281

Even if properly initialized, the lvname array (i.e., strings)
is read from disk, and might contain corrupt data (e.g., lack
the null terminating character for strings).

So, make sure the partition name string used in pr_warn() has
the null terminating character.

Fixes: 6ceea22bbbc8 ("partitions: add aix lvm partition support files")
Suggested-by: Daniel J. Axtens <daniel.axtens at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
(cherry picked from commit d43fdae7bac2def8c4314b5a49822cb7f08a45f1)
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo at canonical.com>
---
 block/partitions/aix.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/partitions/aix.c b/block/partitions/aix.c
index 850cbd1860d4..903f3ed175d0 100644
--- a/block/partitions/aix.c
+++ b/block/partitions/aix.c
@@ -283,10 +283,14 @@ int aix_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
 				next_lp_ix += 1;
 		}
 		for (i = 0; i < state->limit; i += 1)
-			if (lvip[i].pps_found && !lvip[i].lv_is_contiguous)
+			if (lvip[i].pps_found && !lvip[i].lv_is_contiguous) {
+				char tmp[sizeof(n[i].name) + 1]; // null char
+
+				snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "%s", n[i].name);
 				pr_warn("partition %s (%u pp's found) is "
 					"not contiguous\n",
-					n[i].name, lvip[i].pps_found);
+					tmp, lvip[i].pps_found);
+			}
 		kfree(pvd);
 	}
 	kfree(n);
-- 
2.17.1





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