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| author | Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> | 2012-07-26 14:47:11 -0700 |
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| committer | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2012-07-30 15:04:17 +1000 |
| commit | 3b9fc37280c521b086943f9aedda767f5bf3b2d3 (patch) | |
| tree | c76cc02753da4df5d11e516d8e9373e5f0426b24 /security/smack | |
| parent | f7da9cdf45cbbad5029d4858dcbc0134e06084ed (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-3b9fc37280c521b086943f9aedda767f5bf3b2d3.zip op-kernel-dev-3b9fc37280c521b086943f9aedda767f5bf3b2d3.tar.gz | |
smack: off by one error
Consider the input case of a rule that consists entirely of non space
symbols followed by a \0. Say 64 + \0
In this case strlen(data) = 64
kzalloc of subject and object are 64 byte objects
sscanfdata, "%s %s %s", subject, ...)
will put 65 bytes into subject.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/smack')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/smack/smackfs.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c index d31e6d9..b1b768e 100644 --- a/security/smack/smackfs.c +++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c @@ -323,11 +323,11 @@ static int smk_parse_long_rule(const char *data, struct smack_rule *rule, int datalen; int rc = -1; - /* - * This is probably inefficient, but safe. - */ + /* This is inefficient */ datalen = strlen(data); - subject = kzalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL); + + /* Our first element can be 64 + \0 with no spaces */ + subject = kzalloc(datalen + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (subject == NULL) return -1; object = kzalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL); |
