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DateWed, 12 Dec 2007 22:35:05 -0800
FromGreg KH <>
Subject[patch 24/36] TEXTSEARCH: Do not allow zero length patterns in the textsearch infrastructure
2.6.22-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
[TEXTSEARCH]: Do not allow zero length patterns in the textsearch infrastructure

[ Upstream commit: e03ba84adb62fbc6049325a5bc00ef6932fa5e39 ]

If a zero length pattern is passed then return EINVAL.
Avoids infinite loops (bm) or invalid memory accesses (kmp).

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 lib/textsearch.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/textsearch.c
+++ b/lib/textsearch.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *		2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
  * Authors:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
- * 		Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>
+ * 		Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
  *
  * ==========================================================================
  *
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ unsigned int textsearch_find_continuous(
  *       the various search algorithms.
  *
  * Returns a new textsearch configuration according to the specified
- *         parameters or a ERR_PTR().
+ * parameters or a ERR_PTR(). If a zero length pattern is passed, this
+ * function returns EINVAL.
  */
 struct ts_config *textsearch_prepare(const char *algo, const void *pattern,
 				     unsigned int len, gfp_t gfp_mask, int flags)
@@ -259,6 +260,9 @@ struct ts_config *textsearch_prepare(con
 	struct ts_config *conf;
 	struct ts_ops *ops;
 	
+	if (len == 0)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
 	ops = lookup_ts_algo(algo);
 #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
 	/*
-- 


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