linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 201/305] Btrfs: ensure path name is null terminated at btrfs_control

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Date:   Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:45:08 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Filipe Manana" <fdmanana@...e.com>,
        "Anand Jain" <anand.jain@...cle.com>,
        "David Sterba" <dsterba@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 201/305] Btrfs: ensure path name is null terminated
 at btrfs_control_ioctl

3.16.63-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>

commit f505754fd6599230371cb01b9332754ddc104be1 upstream.

We were using the path name received from user space without checking that
it is null terminated. While btrfs-progs is well behaved and does proper
validation and null termination, someone could call the ioctl and pass
a non-null terminated patch, leading to buffer overrun problems in the
kernel.  The ioctl is protected by CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

So just set the last byte of the path to a null character, similar to what
we do in other ioctls (add/remove/resize device, snapshot creation, etc).

Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 fs/btrfs/super.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1771,6 +1771,7 @@ static long btrfs_control_ioctl(struct f
 	vol = memdup_user((void __user *)arg, sizeof(*vol));
 	if (IS_ERR(vol))
 		return PTR_ERR(vol);
+	vol->name[BTRFS_PATH_NAME_MAX] = '\0';

 	switch (cmd) {
 	case BTRFS_IOC_SCAN_DEV: