From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josef Bacik Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mkfs: avoid heap-buffer-read-underrun for zero-length "size" arg Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:41:28 -0400 Message-ID: <20120420184128.GD1957@localhost.localdomain> References: <1334943408-6720-1-git-send-email-jim@meyering.net> <1334943408-6720-5-git-send-email-jim@meyering.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Jim Meyering Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1334943408-6720-5-git-send-email-jim@meyering.net> List-ID: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:36:48PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > From: Jim Meyering > > * mkfs.c (parse_size): ./mkfs.btrfs -A '' would read and possibly > write the byte before beginning of strdup'd heap buffer. All other > size-accepting options were similarly affected. > --- > mkfs.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/mkfs.c b/mkfs.c > index 03239fb..4aff2fd 100644 > --- a/mkfs.c > +++ b/mkfs.c > @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static u64 parse_size(char *s) > > s = strdup(s); > > - if (!isdigit(s[len - 1])) { > + if (len && !isdigit(s[len - 1])) { > c = tolower(s[len - 1]); > switch (c) { > case 'g': Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik Thanks, Josef