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From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: NCPFS memleak/crazyness?
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:30:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030309203048.GA31393@linuxhacker.ru> (raw)

Hello!

   Looking at fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c (latest 2.4 bk tree), I seem to see a place
   where we use userspace-pointers directly (And eventually doing kfree on
   these). In NCP_IOC_SETOBJECTNAME handler, we allocated space (newname
   pointer), copy stuff from userspace to there and then assign userspace
   pointer to our internal structure, whoops! Or am I missing something?

   Seems that following patch is needed. (Same problem is present in 2.5
   and same patch should apply)

   Found with help of smatch + enhanced unfree script.

Bye,
    Oleg

===== fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c 1.3 vs edited =====
--- 1.3/fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c	Mon Sep  9 22:36:07 2002
+++ edited/fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c	Sun Mar  9 23:23:12 2003
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
 			oldprivatelen = server->priv.len;
 			server->auth.auth_type = user.auth_type;
 			server->auth.object_name_len = user.object_name_len;
-			server->auth.object_name = user.object_name;
+			server->auth.object_name = newname;
 			server->priv.len = 0;
 			server->priv.data = NULL;
 			/* leave critical section */

             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-09 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-09 20:30 Oleg Drokin [this message]
2003-03-09 20:43 ` [PATCH] Re: NCPFS memleak/crazyness? Petr Vandrovec

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