linux-kernel - Re: [patch] nfsd: don't allow zero length strings in cache

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:41:08 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] nfsd: don't allow zero length strings in cache_parse()

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:56:02PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There is no point in passing a zero length string here and quite a
> few of that cache_parse() implementations will Oops if count is
> zero.

Thanks, I'll apply.

Could we clean up any checks in cache_parse() that are unnecessary now?

--b.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> index 465df9a..8c6598e 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> @@ -828,6 +828,8 @@ static ssize_t cache_do_downcall(char *kaddr, const char __user *buf,
>  {
>  	ssize_t ret;
>  
> +	if (count == 0)
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	if (copy_from_user(kaddr, buf, count))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  	kaddr[count] = '\0';


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