From: Davi Arnaut Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:04:46 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] Fix keyctl usage of strnlen_user() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc3~227 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d94074f0804143eac6bce72dc04447c0040e7d8;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] Fix keyctl usage of strnlen_user() In the small window between strnlen_user() and copy_from_user() userspace could alter the terminating `\0' character. Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut Cc: David Howells Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c index 90db5c76cf6..0c62798ac7d 100644 --- a/security/keys/keyctl.c +++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c @@ -67,9 +67,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_add_key(const char __user *_type, description = kmalloc(dlen + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!description) goto error; + description[dlen] = '\0'; ret = -EFAULT; - if (copy_from_user(description, _description, dlen + 1) != 0) + if (copy_from_user(description, _description, dlen) != 0) goto error2; /* pull the payload in if one was supplied */ @@ -161,9 +162,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_request_key(const char __user *_type, description = kmalloc(dlen + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!description) goto error; + description[dlen] = '\0'; ret = -EFAULT; - if (copy_from_user(description, _description, dlen + 1) != 0) + if (copy_from_user(description, _description, dlen) != 0) goto error2; /* pull the callout info into kernel space */ @@ -182,9 +184,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_request_key(const char __user *_type, callout_info = kmalloc(dlen + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!callout_info) goto error2; + callout_info[dlen] = '\0'; ret = -EFAULT; - if (copy_from_user(callout_info, _callout_info, dlen + 1) != 0) + if (copy_from_user(callout_info, _callout_info, dlen) != 0) goto error3; } @@ -279,9 +282,10 @@ long keyctl_join_session_keyring(const char __user *_name) name = kmalloc(nlen + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!name) goto error; + name[nlen] = '\0'; ret = -EFAULT; - if (copy_from_user(name, _name, nlen + 1) != 0) + if (copy_from_user(name, _name, nlen) != 0) goto error2; } @@ -583,9 +587,10 @@ long keyctl_keyring_search(key_serial_t ringid, description = kmalloc(dlen + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!description) goto error; + description[dlen] = '\0'; ret = -EFAULT; - if (copy_from_user(description, _description, dlen + 1) != 0) + if (copy_from_user(description, _description, dlen) != 0) goto error2; /* get the keyring at which to begin the search */