netdev - [Patch net] taskstats: fix the length of cgroupstats_cmd_get

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Date:   Thu,  3 Nov 2016 09:42:36 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: [Patch net] taskstats: fix the length of cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy

cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy is [CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1],
taskstats_cmd_get_policy[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1],
but their family.maxattr is TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX.
CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX is less than TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX,
so we could end up accessing out-of-bound.

Change cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy to TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1,
this is safe because the rest are initialized to 0's.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
---
 kernel/taskstats.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index b3f05ee..cbb387a 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ static const struct nla_policy taskstats_cmd_get_policy[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1
 	[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_REGISTER_CPUMASK] = { .type = NLA_STRING },
 	[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_DEREGISTER_CPUMASK] = { .type = NLA_STRING },};
 
-static const struct nla_policy cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy[CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
+/*
+ * We have to use TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX here, it is the maxattr in the family.
+ * Make sure they are always aligned.
+ */
+static const struct nla_policy cgroupstats_cmd_get_policy[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
 	[CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_FD] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 };
 
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