Commit 448d7b5d authored by Nelson Elhage's avatar Nelson Elhage Committed by David S. Miller

pktgen: Limit how much data we copy onto the stack.

A program that accidentally writes too much data to the pktgen file can overflow
the kernel stack and oops the machine. This is only triggerable by root, so
there's no security issue, but it's still an unfortunate bug.

printk() won't print more than 1024 bytes in a single call, anyways, so let's
just never copy more than that much data. We're on a fairly shallow stack, so
that should be safe even with CONFIG_4KSTACKS.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8acfe468
......@@ -887,10 +887,11 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_if_write(struct file *file,
i += len;
if (debug) {
char tb[count + 1];
if (copy_from_user(tb, user_buffer, count))
size_t copy = min(count, 1023);
char tb[copy + 1];
if (copy_from_user(tb, user_buffer, copy))
return -EFAULT;
tb[count] = 0;
tb[copy] = 0;
printk(KERN_DEBUG "pktgen: %s,%lu buffer -:%s:-\n", name,
(unsigned long)count, tb);
}
......
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