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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ast@fb.com
Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net, tobias@waldekranz.com,
	brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm()
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:28:12 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160309.232812.952849846092100551.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457582553-395600-1-git-send-email-ast@fb.com>

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:02:33 -0800

> Lots of places in the kernel use memcpy(buf, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); but
> the result is typically passed to print("%s", buf) and extra bytes
> after zero don't cause any harm.
> In bpf the result of bpf_get_current_comm() is used as the part of
> map key and was causing spurious hash map mismatches.
> Use strlcpy() to guarantee zero-terminated string.
> bpf verifier checks that output buffer is zero-initialized,
> so even for short task names the output buffer don't have junk bytes.
> Note it's not a security concern, since kprobe+bpf is root only.
> 
> Fixes: ffeedafbf023 ("bpf: introduce current->pid, tgid, uid, gid, comm accessors")
> Reported-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> ---
> Targeting net-next, since it's too late for net.
> I think it makes sense for stable as well.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10  4:02 [PATCH net-next] bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm() Alexei Starovoitov
2016-03-10  4:28 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-03-11 10:24 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-03-11 17:20   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-03-11 18:02     ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-03-11 18:35       ` Alexei Starovoitov

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