Re: [PATCHv3] Fix range checks in kernfs_get_target_path

[Tejun Heo]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 10:55:24AM +0000, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> Ping...
> Sorry, I had actually completely forgotten about this one.
> 
> On 07/07/18 19:52, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> > The terminating NUL byte is only there because the buffer is
> > allocated with kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL), but since the
> > range-check is off-by-one, and PAGE_SIZE==PATH_MAX, the
> > returned string may not be zero-terminated if it is exactly
> > PATH_MAX characters long.  Furthermore also the initial loop
> > may theoretically exceed PATH_MAX and cause a fault.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun