Patch "bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm()

to the 4.4-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:
     bpf-avoid-copying-junk-bytes-in-bpf_get_current_comm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:02:33 -0800
Subject: bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm()

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>

[ Upstream commit cdc4e47da8f4c32eeb6b2061a8a834f4362a12b7 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/bpf/helpers.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static u64 bpf_get_current_comm(u64 r1,
 	if (!task)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	memcpy(buf, task->comm, min_t(size_t, size, sizeof(task->comm)));
+	strlcpy(buf, task->comm, min_t(size_t, size, sizeof(task->comm)));
 	return 0;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ast@fb.com are

queue-4.4/bpf-avoid-copying-junk-bytes-in-bpf_get_current_comm.patch