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| author | Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2008-12-09 13:14:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-12-10 08:01:52 -0800 |
| commit | 361371201b60ffd686a694c848c1d5ad6061725f (patch) | |
| tree | 925f3fa0e62a5fc64840824dfd9a9aad36cb1076 /arch/um | |
| parent | 69fc208be5b7eb18d22d1eca185b201400fd5ffc (diff) | |
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uml: boot broken due to buffer overrun
mconsole_init() passed 256 bytes as length in os_create_unix_socket, while
the sizeof UNIX_PATH_MAX is 108. This patch fixes that problem and avoids
a big overrun bug reported on UML bootup.
sockaddr_un.sun_path is UNIX_PATH_MAX long which causes the problem.
Reported-by: Vikas K Managutte <vikki.km@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sarvesh Kumar Lal Das <skldas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [please check with Jeff]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c index 19d579d74d27..8f44ebb0dec8 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/utsname.h> +#include <linux/socket.h> +#include <linux/un.h> #include <linux/workqueue.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -785,7 +787,7 @@ static int __init mconsole_init(void) /* long to avoid size mismatch warnings from gcc */ long sock; int err; - char file[256]; + char file[UNIX_PATH_MAX]; if (umid_file_name("mconsole", file, sizeof(file))) return -1; |