time: fix sysfs_show_{available,current}_clocksources() buffer overflow problem
authorMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:36:53 +0000 (01:36 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:41:03 +0000 (10:41 -0800)
I found that there is a buffer overflow problem in the following code.

Version: 2.6.24-rc2,
File: kernel/time/clocksource.c:417-432
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static ssize_t
sysfs_show_available_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf)
{
struct clocksource *src;
char *curr = buf;

spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock);
list_for_each_entry(src, &clocksource_list, list) {
curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", src->name);
}
spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock);

curr += sprintf(curr, "\n");

return curr - buf;
}
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sysfs_show_current_clocksources() also has the same problem though in practice
the size of current clocksource's name won't exceed PAGE_SIZE.

I fix the bug by using snprintf according to the specification of the kernel
(Version:2.6.24-rc2,File:Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt)

Fix sysfs_show_available_clocksources() and sysfs_show_current_clocksources()
buffer overflow problem with snprintf().

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/time/clocksource.c

index 6e9259a5d5010ac7e869f4f567fd3c0618002943..81afb3927eccca2a8f684eb41508740779ed102a 100644 (file)
@@ -363,15 +363,13 @@ void clocksource_unregister(struct clocksource *cs)
 static ssize_t
 sysfs_show_current_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf)
 {
-       char *curr = buf;
+       ssize_t count = 0;
 
        spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock);
-       curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", curr_clocksource->name);
+       count = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", curr_clocksource->name);
        spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock);
 
-       curr += sprintf(curr, "\n");
-
-       return curr - buf;
+       return count;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -439,17 +437,20 @@ static ssize_t
 sysfs_show_available_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf)
 {
        struct clocksource *src;
-       char *curr = buf;
+       ssize_t count = 0;
 
        spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock);
        list_for_each_entry(src, &clocksource_list, list) {
-               curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", src->name);
+               count += snprintf(buf + count,
+                                 max((ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE - count, (ssize_t)0),
+                                 "%s ", src->name);
        }
        spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock);
 
-       curr += sprintf(curr, "\n");
+       count += snprintf(buf + count,
+                         max((ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE - count, (ssize_t)0), "\n");
 
-       return curr - buf;
+       return count;
 }
 
 /*