[ 33/33] usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 264b83c07a84223f0efd0d1db9ccc66d6f88288f upstream.

argv_split(empty_or_all_spaces) happily succeeds, it simply returns
argc == 0 and argv[0] == NULL. Change call_usermodehelper_exec() to
check sub_info->path != NULL to avoid the crash.

This is the minimal fix, todo:

 - perhaps we should change argv_split() to return NULL or change the
   callers.

 - kill or justify ->path[0] check

 - narrow the scope of helper_lock()

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/kmod.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -421,6 +421,11 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subp
 	int retval = 0;
 
 	helper_lock();
+	if (!sub_info->path) {
+		retval = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0')
 		goto out;
 


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