[PATCH 2/2] lib: Limit strnlen_user() return value to count + 1

[Jan Kara]

Currently strnlen_user() can return numbers between 0 and
count + sizeof(unsigned long) - 1. Currently, no in tree users seem to
care but I have found out of tree users which were broken by this. They
wanted to truncate the string if it was too long to fit into a buffer
and didn't count with the fact that strnlen_user() can return more.
So make the function harder to use wrong and return count + 1 max.

CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
 lib/strnlen_user.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/strnlen_user.c b/lib/strnlen_user.c
index fd03ae980013..2e47f9e16a79 100644
--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const char __user *src, unsigned long count,
 		if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants)) {
 			data = prep_zero_mask(c, data, &constants);
 			data = create_zero_mask(data);
-			return res + find_zero(data) + 1 - align;
+			res = res + find_zero(data) + 1 - align;
+			if (res > count)
+				return count + 1;
+			return res;
 		}
 		res += sizeof(unsigned long);
 		if (unlikely(max <= sizeof(unsigned long)))
-- 
2.1.4

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/