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Message-ID: <20080830194420.GF7611@lenovo>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:44:20 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc: Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, Greg Banks <gnb@....com>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...i.umich.edu>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports
[Vegard Nossum - Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 09:34:21PM +0200]
| On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
| > | Hm. I think this is wrong. Shouldn't we copy as many bytes as the user
| > | indicated?
| >
| > Well, hard to say what user-space programmer is expecting from us.
| > I mean - maybe he (reader) wants only part of results not the whole
| > contents BUT by this way he never know what the whole conetnts would be
| > until trying to read more (ie to check if there no more data from
| > kernel side). What is preferred behaviour - i don't know :)
|
| For any other file, read(1) + read(1) should be exactly equivalent to
| a read(2). What's the difference here?
Convinced completely :) Moreover proc_dodebug() does exactly
the same as you talking about.
|
| (Btw, thanks for the quick reply :-))
with my pleasure :)
|
|
| Vegard
|
| --
| "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
| the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
| disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
| -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
|
- Cyrill -
---
Index: linux-2.6.git/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c 2008-07-20 11:40:14.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c 2008-08-30 23:43:14.000000000 +0400
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(ctl_table *table
len = svc_print_xprts(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf));
if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buffer, len))
return -EFAULT;
-
+ if (*lenp < len)
+ len = *lenp;
if (__copy_to_user(buffer, tmpbuf, len))
return -EFAULT;
}
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