Re: [patch 058/209] audit: rework execve audit

[Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:13:10PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > +		len = strnlen_user(p, MAX_ARG_PAGES*PAGE_SIZE);
> > +		/*
> > +		 * We just created this mm, if we can't find the strings
> > +		 * we just copied into it something is _very_ wrong. Similar
> > +		 * for strings that are too long, we should not have created
> > +		 * any.
> > +		 */
> > +		if (!len || len > MAX_ARG_STRLEN) {
> > +			WARN_ON(1);
> > +			send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
> > +		}
> 
> Which is right here ^^^
> 
> Any ideas?

Empty string in the middle of argv?  Quite legal...
; cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	while (argc--) {
		printf("<%d:%s>", strlen(*argv), *argv);
		argv++;
	}
	printf("\n");
	return 0;
}
; gcc foo.c
; ./a.out a b
<7:./a.out><1:a><1:b>
; ./a.out a "" b
<7:./a.out><1:a><0:><1:b>
;

IOW, it's trivial to arrange - len can be 0 just fine...