[PATCH 01/10] ipc: Fix potential oops when src msg > 4k w/ MSG_COPY

From: Peter Hurley
Date: Mon Feb 25 2013 - 21:22:55 EST


If the src msg is > 4k, then dest->next points to the
next allocated segment; resetting it just prior to dereferencing
is bad.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/msgutil.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/msgutil.c b/ipc/msgutil.c
index ebfcbfa..5df8e4b 100644
--- a/ipc/msgutil.c
+++ b/ipc/msgutil.c
@@ -117,9 +117,6 @@ struct msg_msg *copy_msg(struct msg_msg *src, struct msg_msg *dst)
if (alen > DATALEN_MSG)
alen = DATALEN_MSG;

- dst->next = NULL;
- dst->security = NULL;
-
memcpy(dst + 1, src + 1, alen);

len -= alen;
--
1.8.1.2

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