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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Buffer overrun in arch/x86_64/sys_ia32.c:sys32_ni_syscall()
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:46:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101847574.3951.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041130103150.I14339@build.pdx.osdl.net>

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:31 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org) wrote:
> > struct task_struct.comm is defined to be 16 chars, but
> > arch/x86_64/sys_ia32.c:sys32_ni_syscall() copies it into a static 8 byte
> > buffer, which will surely cause problems.  This patch makes lastcomm[]
> > the right size, and makes sure it can't be overrun.  Since the code also
> > goes to the effort of getting a local copy of current in "me", we may as
> > well use it for printing the message.
> 
> Looks good, but you missed sys32_vm86_warning.

Hadn't got that far.  Should we be worried that task_struct.comm might
not be \0-terminated, and therefore use ("... %.*s ...",
sizeof(lastcomm), lastcomm) in the printk's?

	J


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-30 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-30  4:05 Buffer overrun in arch/x86_64/sys_ia32.c:sys32_ni_syscall() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2004-11-30 18:31 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-30 20:46   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2004-11-30 22:17     ` Chris Wright

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