avoid potential stack overflow by correctly checking count parameter
Reported-by: Ilja <ilja@netric.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
size_t count, loff_t *pos)
{
void *data = PDE(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode)->data;
- char *cur, lbuf[count + 1];
+ char *cur, lbuf[32];
int d;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EACCES;
- memset(lbuf, 0, count + 1);
+ if (count >= sizeof(lbuf))
+ count = sizeof(lbuf)-1;
if (copy_from_user(lbuf, buf, count))
return -EFAULT;
+ lbuf[count] = 0;
cur = lbuf;