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authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>2013-03-08 15:43:27 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-03-08 18:05:33 -0500
commit88b9e456b1649722673ffa147914299799dc9041 (patch)
treecb2c12ee6fc4ad53e1a15c4e19f676b1d0058183 /ipc
parente1082f45f1e2bbf6e25f6b614fc6616ebf709d19 (diff)
ipc: don't allocate a copy larger than max
When MSG_COPY is set, a duplicate message must be allocated for the copy before locking the queue. However, the copy could not be larger than was sent which is limited to msg_ctlmax. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/msg.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index 950572f9d796..31cd1bf6af27 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -820,15 +820,17 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, long msgtyp,
820 struct msg_msg *copy = NULL; 820 struct msg_msg *copy = NULL;
821 unsigned long copy_number = 0; 821 unsigned long copy_number = 0;
822 822
823 ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
824
823 if (msqid < 0 || (long) bufsz < 0) 825 if (msqid < 0 || (long) bufsz < 0)
824 return -EINVAL; 826 return -EINVAL;
825 if (msgflg & MSG_COPY) { 827 if (msgflg & MSG_COPY) {
826 copy = prepare_copy(buf, bufsz, msgflg, &msgtyp, &copy_number); 828 copy = prepare_copy(buf, min_t(size_t, bufsz, ns->msg_ctlmax),
829 msgflg, &msgtyp, &copy_number);
827 if (IS_ERR(copy)) 830 if (IS_ERR(copy))
828 return PTR_ERR(copy); 831 return PTR_ERR(copy);
829 } 832 }
830 mode = convert_mode(&msgtyp, msgflg); 833 mode = convert_mode(&msgtyp, msgflg);
831 ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
832 834
833 msq = msg_lock_check(ns, msqid); 835 msq = msg_lock_check(ns, msqid);
834 if (IS_ERR(msq)) { 836 if (IS_ERR(msq)) {