netdev - [PATCH] bonding: fix a buffer overflow in bonding_show_queue

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:24:37 +0200
From:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>
To:	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, andy@...yhouse.net,
	fubar@...ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] bonding: fix a buffer overflow in bonding_show_queue_id.

The test for buffer overflow ensures we have room for 6 more bytes.
sprintf, called with %s:%d, slave->dev->name, slave->queue_id may yield
far more than 6 bytes.

The correct test is res > (PAGE_SIZE - IFNAMSIZ - 6) .

Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index f9a0343..1a99764 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -1427,8 +1427,8 @@ static ssize_t bonding_show_queue_id(struct device *d,
 
 	read_lock(&bond->lock);
 	bond_for_each_slave(bond, slave, i) {
-		if (res > (PAGE_SIZE - 6)) {
-			/* not enough space for another interface name */
+		if (res > (PAGE_SIZE - IFNAMSIZ - 6)) {
+			/* not enough space for another interface_name:queue_id pair */
 			if ((PAGE_SIZE - res) > 10)
 				res = PAGE_SIZE - 10;
 			res += sprintf(buf + res, "++more++ ");
-- 
1.7.1



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