[TEXTSEARCH]: Do not allow zero length patterns in the textsearch infrastructure

If a zero length pattern is passed then return EINVAL.
Avoids infinite loops (bm) or invalid memory accesses (kmp).

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/lib/textsearch.c b/lib/textsearch.c
index 88c98a2ec8d93efd79b230ca98feed8658f406a4..be8bda3862f5f34595dcdbeb6284e30071ef7409 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/textsearch.c
+++ b/lib/textsearch.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *             2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
  * Authors:    Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
- *             Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>
+ *             Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
  *
  * ==========================================================================
  *
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ unsigned int textsearch_find_continuous(struct ts_config *conf,
  *       the various search algorithms.
  *
  * Returns a new textsearch configuration according to the specified
- *         parameters or a ERR_PTR().
+ * parameters or a ERR_PTR(). If a zero length pattern is passed, this
+ * function returns EINVAL.
  */
 struct ts_config *textsearch_prepare(const char *algo, const void *pattern,
                                     unsigned int len, gfp_t gfp_mask, int flags)
@@ -259,6 +260,9 @@ struct ts_config *textsearch_prepare(const char *algo, const void *pattern,
        struct ts_config *conf;
        struct ts_ops *ops;
        
+       if (len == 0)
+               return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
        ops = lookup_ts_algo(algo);
 #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
        /*