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authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>2011-10-25 09:18:41 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2011-10-25 09:18:41 -0400
commitcf8039036a6e9c5f7144841925f212a957faf1aa (patch)
tree660c82cd18b64ba27d84edd13336ac42efc04040 /fs/ext4
parenta4e5d88b1b24827f4f6a3cba43228936a67d81ba (diff)
ext4: prevent stack overrun in ext4_file_open
In ext4_file_open, the filesystem records the mountpoint of the first file that is opened after mounting the filesystem. It does this by allocating a 64-byte stack buffer, calling d_path() to grab the mount point through which this file was accessed, and then memcpy()ing 64 bytes into the superblock's s_last_mounted field, starting from the return value of d_path(), which is stored as "cp". However, if cp > buf (which it frequently is since path components are prepended starting at the end of buf) then we can end up copying stack data into the superblock. Writing stack variables into the superblock doesn't sound like a great idea, so use strlcpy instead. Andi Kleen suggested using strlcpy instead of strncpy. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/file.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index e4095e988eba..9781099337ec 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ static int ext4_file_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
181 path.dentry = mnt->mnt_root; 181 path.dentry = mnt->mnt_root;
182 cp = d_path(&path, buf, sizeof(buf)); 182 cp = d_path(&path, buf, sizeof(buf));
183 if (!IS_ERR(cp)) { 183 if (!IS_ERR(cp)) {
184 memcpy(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted, cp, 184 strlcpy(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted, cp,
185 sizeof(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted)); 185 sizeof(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted));
186 ext4_mark_super_dirty(sb); 186 ext4_mark_super_dirty(sb);
187 } 187 }
188 } 188 }