[PATCH 1/2] Ensure nul-termination of file names read from checkpoint images

Oren Laadan orenl at librato.com
Fri Oct 23 17:23:24 PDT 2009



Matt Helsley wrote:
> Don't rely on the checkpoint image to properly terminate the filename.
> Passing PATH_MAX + 1 won't work since it's a maximum -- not the number
> of bytes to allocate. Allocate space for the string, copy an amount
> according to the header length (limited to < PATH_MAX), and ensure that
> it's nul-terminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc at us.ibm.com>

I dislike unneeded data copy.
See ckpt_read_string() and ckpt_read_payload().

Oren.

> ---
>  checkpoint/files.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/checkpoint/files.c b/checkpoint/files.c
> index f6de07e..0564666 100644
> --- a/checkpoint/files.c
> +++ b/checkpoint/files.c
> @@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ struct file *restore_open_fname(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, int flags)
>  	struct ckpt_hdr *h;
>  	struct file *file;
>  	char *fname;
> +	int len;
>  
>  	/* prevent bad input from doing bad things */
>  	if (flags & (O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOCTTY | O_TRUNC))
> @@ -451,10 +452,19 @@ struct file *restore_open_fname(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, int flags)
>  	h = ckpt_read_buf_type(ctx, PATH_MAX, CKPT_HDR_FILE_NAME);
>  	if (IS_ERR(h))
>  		return (struct file *) h;
> -	fname = (char *) (h + 1);
> +	len = h->len - sizeof(*h);
> +	fname = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!fname) {
> +		file = NULL;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +	strncpy(fname, (char *) (h + 1), len);
> +	fname[len] = '\0';
>  	ckpt_debug("fname '%s' flags %#x\n", fname, flags);
>  
>  	file = filp_open(fname, flags, 0);
> +	kfree(fname);
> +out:
>  	ckpt_hdr_put(ctx, h);
>  
>  	return file;


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