linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf/core: use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version

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Date:   Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:07:23 +0100
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, jannh@...gle.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version

The first version of this method was missing the check for
`ret == PATH_MAX`; then such a check was added, but it didn't call kfree()
on error, so there was still a small memory leak in the error case.
Fix it by using strndup_user() instead of open-coding it.

Fixes: 0eadcc7a7bc0 ("perf/core: Fix perf_uprobe_init()")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
---
compile-tested only

 kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
index 76217bbef815..c744b02081c3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
@@ -299,15 +299,11 @@ int perf_uprobe_init(struct perf_event *p_event,
 
 	if (!p_event->attr.uprobe_path)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	path = kzalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!path)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	ret = strncpy_from_user(
-		path, u64_to_user_ptr(p_event->attr.uprobe_path), PATH_MAX);
-	if (ret == PATH_MAX)
-		return -E2BIG;
-	if (ret < 0)
-		goto out;
+
+	path = strndup_user(u64_to_user_ptr(p_event->attr.uprobe_path),
+			    PATH_MAX);
+	if (IS_ERR(path))
+		return PTR_ERR(path);
 	if (path[0] == '\0') {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
-- 
2.21.0.rc0.258.g878e2cd30e-goog