| Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:53:09 -0700 | From | Casey Schaufler <> | Subject | Re: [ 010/122] smack: off by one error |
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On 8/7/2012 3:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > 3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
No objection here.
> > ------------------ > > From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> > > commit 3b9fc37280c521b086943f9aedda767f5bf3b2d3 upstream. > > 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> > Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > --- > security/smack/smackfs.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > --- a/security/smack/smackfs.c > +++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c > @@ -325,11 +325,11 @@ static int smk_parse_long_rule(const cha > 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); > > >
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