Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Fix oops when parsing a 0 length export

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:33:29PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 15:28 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:14:49PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > expkey_parse() oopses when handling a 0 length export. This is easily
> > > triggerable from usermode by writing 0 bytes into
> > > '/proc/[proc id]/net/rpc/nfsd.fh/channel'.
> > 
> > Thanks--how did you run across this?
> > 
> > --b.
> 
> Tried running a fuzzer on the system.

OK, thanks.  As far as I can tell this could only be hit by a privileged
user doing something stupid.  And the bug has been there forever.

So I'm inclined just to queue this up for 3.3.

--b.
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