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authorMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-02-06 01:36:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-06 10:41:03 -0800
commit5e2cb1018a8a583b83d56c80f46507da6f3f2b57 (patch)
treeb9cbe718649c8be6e2d54aedcf75244fbe56bddd /kernel/time
parentbe6c28e62e3a304b74013afab029af2021e1f50d (diff)
downloadlinux-5e2cb1018a8a583b83d56c80f46507da6f3f2b57.tar.gz
time: fix sysfs_show_{available,current}_clocksources() buffer overflow problem
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
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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;
}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/clocksource.c19
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 6e9259a5d501..81afb3927ecc 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -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;
 }
 
 /*