Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:28:31 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sanitize task->comm to avoid leaking escape codes |
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:23:35PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:41:45PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 06/23, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > -extern char *get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk); > > > +#define get_task_comm(buf, task) get_task_comm_size(buf, sizeof(buf), task) > > > +extern char *get_task_comm_size(char *to, size_t len, struct task_struct *tsk); > > > > Oh, but this means that get_task_comm(ptr, task) doesn't work? > > The number of users is so small, and everyone uses TASK_COMM_LEN, > so maybe nothing should be done or "char buf[TASK_COMM_LEN]"?
I couldn't handle the pathological use of strncpy(dest, src, sizeof(src)) that is currently in get_task_comm; that's just asking for trouble.
If someone wants to use a ptr for get_task_comm, they would get to call get_task_comm_size() instead?
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team
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