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* Patch "lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
@ 2015-06-03  1:32 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2015-06-03  1:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jack, gregkh, torvalds; +Cc: stable, stable-commits


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     lib-fix-strnlen_user-to-not-touch-memory-after-specified-maximum.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From f18c34e483ff6b1d9866472221e4015b3a4698e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:10:28 +0200
Subject: lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximum

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

commit f18c34e483ff6b1d9866472221e4015b3a4698e4 upstream.

If the specified maximum length of the string is a multiple of unsigned
long, we would load one long behind the specified maximum.  If that
happens to be in a next page, we can hit a page fault although we were
not expected to.

Fix the off-by-one bug in the test whether we are at the end of the
specified range.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 lib/strnlen_user.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const
 			return res + find_zero(data) + 1 - align;
 		}
 		res += sizeof(unsigned long);
-		if (unlikely(max < sizeof(unsigned long)))
+		/* We already handled 'unsigned long' bytes. Did we do it all ? */
+		if (unlikely(max <= sizeof(unsigned long)))
 			break;
 		max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
 		if (unlikely(__get_user(c,(unsigned long __user *)(src+res))))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@suse.cz are

queue-3.14/lib-fix-strnlen_user-to-not-touch-memory-after-specified-maximum.patch

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