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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [RESEND PATCH] autofs4 - remove string terminator check
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:14:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081028011430.4976.320.stgit@zeus.themaw.net> (raw)

In a previous patch a comment was made that checking for the existence of
a NULL terminator in strings copied from userspace wasn't needed as this
is done in many places in the kernel without problem. This patch removes
this string terminator check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
---

 fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c |   20 --------------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
index 625abf5..304c1ff 100644
--- 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;


             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28  1:14 Ian Kent [this message]
2008-10-28  1:54 ` [RESEND PATCH] autofs4 - remove string terminator check Andrew Morton
2008-10-28  2:07   ` Ian Kent
2008-10-28  2:11     ` Ian Kent
2008-10-28  2:35       ` Ian Kent

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