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add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing more robust

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match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.

There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options().  I believe it currently
can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.

The source string is a substing of the mount options.  The kernel silently
truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero.  See
compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().

The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.

We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.  PATH_MAX is 4096.  As far as
I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096.

Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct.  It
doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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Markus Armbruster 2008-02-26 09:57:11 -06:00 • committed by Eric Van Hensbergen
parent dd286422fe
commit b32a09db4f
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@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ int match_token(char *, match_table_t table, substring_t args[]);
int match_int(substring_t *, int *result);
int match_octal(substring_t *, int *result);
int match_hex(substring_t *, int *result);
void match_strcpy(char *, const substring_t *);
size_t match_strlcpy(char *, const substring_t *, size_t);
char *match_strdup(const substring_t *);