linux-kernel - [PATCH 60/60] staging: lustre: libcfs: fix minimum size check for libcfs ioctl

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Date:   Sat, 28 Jan 2017 19:05:28 -0500
From:   James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 60/60] staging: lustre: libcfs: fix minimum size check for libcfs ioctl

The check for the smallest ioctl data in libcfs_ioctl_getdata()
is incorrect. Instead of checking against struct libcfs_ioctl_data
compare the size to struct libcfs_ioctl_hdr.

Reported-by: Doug Oucharek <doug.s.oucharek@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c
index 3f5d58b..bda6c16 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-module.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ int libcfs_ioctl_getdata(struct libcfs_ioctl_hdr **hdr_pp,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (hdr.ioc_len < sizeof(struct libcfs_ioctl_data)) {
+	if (hdr.ioc_len < sizeof(hdr)) {
 		CERROR("libcfs ioctl: user buffer too small for ioctl\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1