From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [patch] 9p: strlen() doesn't count the terminator Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:51:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20100710095154.GU19184@bicker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "David S. Miller" , Abhishek Kulkarni , Venkateswararao Jujjuri , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tilman Sauerbeck , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Van Hensbergen Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org This is an off by one bug because strlen() doesn't count the NULL terminator. We strcpy() addr into a fixed length array of size UNIX_PATH_MAX later on. The addr variable is the name of the device being mounted. CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/9p/trans_fd.c b/net/9p/trans_fd.c index 98ce9bc..c85109d 100644 --- a/net/9p/trans_fd.c +++ b/net/9p/trans_fd.c @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ p9_fd_create_unix(struct p9_client *client, const char *addr, char *args) csocket = NULL; - if (strlen(addr) > UNIX_PATH_MAX) { + if (strlen(addr) >= UNIX_PATH_MAX) { P9_EPRINTK(KERN_ERR, "p9_trans_unix: address too long: %s\n", addr); return -ENAMETOOLONG;