Re: [PATCH 2/6] autofs4 - remove string terminator check

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:31 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:35:22 +0800
> Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> 
> > Remove unnecessary string terminator check.
> 
> Why is it unnecessary?
> 
> Does this change alter behaviour in any way?
> 
> Does it fix a bug?

Umm .... it was done in response to your comment, quoted below ...

> +/*
> + * Check a string doesn't overrun the chunk of
> + * memory we copied from user land.
> + */
> +static int invalid_str(char *str, void *end)
> +{
> +     while ((void *) str <= end)
> +             if (!*str++)
> +                     return 0;
> +     return -EINVAL;
> +}

What is this?  We copy strings in from userspace in 10000 different
places without needing checks such as this?

> 
> Better changelogs, please....
> 
> > --- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> > +++ b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> > @@ -51,18 +51,6 @@ static int check_name(const char *name)
> >  }
> >  
> >  /*
> > - * Check a string doesn't overrun the chunk of
> > - * memory we copied from user land.
> > - */
> > -static int invalid_str(char *str, void *end)
> > -{
> > -	while ((void *) str <= end)
> > -		if (!*str++)
> > -			return 0;
> > -	return -EINVAL;
> > -}
> > -
> > -/*
> >   * Check that the user compiled against correct version of autofs
> >   * misc device code.
> >   *
> > @@ -143,14 +131,6 @@ static int validate_dev_ioctl(int cmd, struct autofs_dev_ioctl *param)
> >  				    cmd);
> >  			goto out;
> >  		}
> > -
> > -		err = invalid_str(param->path,
> > -				 (void *) ((size_t) param + param->size));
> > -		if (err) {
> > -			AUTOFS_WARN("invalid path supplied for cmd(0x%08x)",
> > -				    cmd);
> > -			goto out;
> > -		}
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	err = 0;