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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 23:39:12 -0400 From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com> To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>, Timo Sirainen <tss@....fi>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA option for prctl() On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro >> <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote: >> >> > + } else { >> > + len = mm->env_end - mm->env_start; >> > + if (len > PAGE_SIZE - res) >> > + len = PAGE_SIZE - res; >> > + res += access_process_vm(task, mm->env_start, >> > + buffer+res, len, 0); >> > + res = strnlen(buffer, res); >> > + } >> >> >> This bug was in the original code, but since you're touching it >> anyway, it should be fixed now; if this access_process_vm fails >> (perhaps due to the target unmapping the page in question in between >> the two calls), bad things might happen if (error code) + res < 0, as >> then strnlen will get a huge value in its length (possibly leading to >> OOPS etc). It should be changed to check for an error return here and >> fail out properly if there is an error in this second check. > > AFAIK, access_process_vm() never return negative value. Ahh, okay, I had read the if (res > 0 && ...) bit in the original code as an error test. Nevermind then. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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