Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/sysfs: off by two when checking the limit on driver_override length

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 15:52 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> When printing the driver_override parameter when it is 4095 and 4094 bytes
> long the printing code would access invalid memory because we need count+1
> bytes for printing.
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.16+
> Fixes: 782a985d ("PCI: Introduce new device binding path using pci_dev.driver_override")
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> index aa012fb..17459ed 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> @@ -521,7 +521,8 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *dev,
>  	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
>  	char *driver_override, *old = pdev->driver_override, *cp;
>  
> -	if (count > PATH_MAX)
> +	/* We need to keep extra room for a newline */
> +	if (count >= (PATH_MAX - 1))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	driver_override = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);

Thanks for posting this Sasha, it fell off my plate with other
activities.

Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>

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