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* [LTP] [PATCH] semctl09: Fix heap smash
@ 2021-01-15 15:19 Martin Doucha
  2021-01-18  9:10 ` Yang Xu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Martin Doucha @ 2021-01-15 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ltp

semctl() expects pointer to a buffer as its fourth argument, not pointer
to a pointer. Passing &un.buf results in heap smash that corrupts internal
LTP data structures on some archs.

CC: Feiyu Zhu <zhufy.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
---
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/semctl/semctl09.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/semctl/semctl09.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/semctl/semctl09.c
index 131bfbc07..d36ba62e5 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/semctl/semctl09.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/semctl/semctl09.c
@@ -51,11 +51,15 @@ static union semun un;
  */
 static inline int do_semctl(int semid, int semnum, int cmd)
 {
+	struct semid_ds info;
+
+	un.buf = &info;
+
 	switch (tst_variant) {
 	case 0:
-		return tst_syscall(__NR_semctl, semid, semnum, cmd, &un.buf);
+		return tst_syscall(__NR_semctl, semid, semnum, cmd, un);
 	case 1:
-		return semctl(semid, semnum, cmd, &un.buf);
+		return semctl(semid, semnum, cmd, un);
 	}
 	return -1;
 }
-- 
2.29.2


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