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* [patch] nfsd4: memory corruption in numeric_name_to_id()
@ 2012-03-28 10:44 Dan Carpenter
  2012-03-28 14:19 ` J. Bruce Fields
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2012-03-28 10:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: J. Bruce Fields; +Cc: linux-nfs, kernel-janitors

"id" is type is a uid_t (32 bits) but on 64 bit systems strict_strtoul()
modifies 64 bits of data.  We should use kstrtouint() instead.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4idmap.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4idmap.c
index 69ca9c5..322d11c 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4idmap.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4idmap.c
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ numeric_name_to_id(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, int type, const char *name, u32 namel
 	/* Just to make sure it's null-terminated: */
 	memcpy(buf, name, namelen);
 	buf[namelen] = '\0';
-	ret = strict_strtoul(name, 10, (unsigned long *)id);
+	ret = kstrtouint(name, 10, id);
 	return ret == 0;
 }
 

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