linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert: audit: Fix check of return value of strnlen

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2015 11:59:39 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert: audit: Fix check of return value of
 strnlen_user()

On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 08:53:34 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Anyway, to make a long rant more on-point, does this alternative
> version work for you?

I'll test it again, even though I already did (see below).

> 
>     diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
>     index 09c65640cad6..e85bdfd15fed 100644
>     --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
>     +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
>     @@ -1021,8 +1021,7 @@ static int audit_log_single_execve_arg(
>              * for strings that are too long, we should not have created
>              * any.
>              */
>     -       if (unlikely((len == 0) || len > MAX_ARG_STRLEN - 1)) {
>     -               WARN_ON(1);
>     +       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(len < 0 || len > MAX_ARG_STRLEN - 1)) {
>                     send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
>                     return -1;
>             }
> 
> because that really looks better to me.
> 

That was what I originally did ;-)  But then I figured I would just
revert the patch with a simple:

  git show 0b08c5e59441d | patch -p1 -R

and submit that.

-- Steve
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