ACK+: [PATCH][focal/linux, bionic/linux, hirsute/linux, hirsute/linux-azure] Revert "CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow"

[Kamal Mostafa]

Ack this revert for all series, including Impish.

Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal


On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 08:14:58AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1952094
> 
> This reverts commit 3d5631a27ec4767ac80dbf553f9ae501b18e07e3.
> 
> This stable patch causes a regression. There are no subsequent
> upstream fixes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> ---
> 
> I'll ask the upstream reviewers about reverting or fixing this patch.
> Its been included in many stable releases:
> 
> linux-4.4.y.txt:0955df2d9bf4857e3e2287e3028903e6cec06c30 CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> linux-4.9.y.txt:8878af780747f498551b7d360cae61b415798f18 CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> linux-4.14.y.txt:20967547ffc6039f17c63a1c24eb779ee166b245 CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> linux-4.19.y.txt:bea655491daf39f1934a71bf576bf3499092d3a4 CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> linux-5.4.y.txt:b444064a0e0ef64491b8739a9ae05a952b5f8974 CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> linux-5.10.y.txt:6c4857203ffa36918136756a889b12c5864bc4ad CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> linux-5.13.y.txt:9bffe470e9b537075345406512df01ca2188b725 CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> linux-5.14.y.txt:c41dd61c86482ab34f6f039b13296308018fd99b CIFS: Fix a potencially linear read overflow
> 
> rtg
> ---
>  fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
> index 171ad8b42107e..9bd03a2310328 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
> @@ -358,9 +358,14 @@ cifs_strndup_from_utf16(const char *src, const int maxlen,
>  		if (!dst)
>  			return NULL;
>  		cifs_from_utf16(dst, (__le16 *) src, len, maxlen, codepage,
> -				NO_MAP_UNI_RSVD);
> +			       NO_MAP_UNI_RSVD);
>  	} else {
> -		dst = kstrndup(src, maxlen, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		len = strnlen(src, maxlen);
> +		len++;
> +		dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!dst)
> +			return NULL;
> +		strlcpy(dst, src, len);
>  	}
>  
>  	return dst;
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
> 
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