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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: Escape more characters in /proc/mounts output
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 04:33:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201216043323.GM3579531@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201215125318.2681355-1-siddhesh@gotplt.org>

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:23:18PM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> +static char *copy_mount_devname(const void __user *data)
> +{
> +	char *p;
> +	long length;
> +
> +	if (data == NULL)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	length = strnlen_user(data, PATH_MAX);
> +
> +	if (!length)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
> +
> +	if (length > PATH_MAX)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
> +	/* Ignore blank strings */
> +	if (length == 1)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	p = memdup_user(data, length);

Once more, with feeling: why bother?  What's wrong
with using the damn strndup_user() and then doing
whatever checks you want with the data already
copied, living in normal kernel memory, with all
string functions applicable, etc.?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-16  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-15 12:53 [PATCH v2] proc: Escape more characters in /proc/mounts output Siddhesh Poyarekar
2020-12-16  4:33 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-12-16  5:25   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar

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