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From: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix count(), compat_count() bounds checking
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:50:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080919155003.GB3114@redhat.com> (raw)

hi,

With MAX_ARG_STRINGS set to 0x7FFFFFFF, and being passed to 'count()'
and compat_count(), it would appear that the current max bounds check
of fs/exec.c:394:

	if(++i > max)
		return -E2BIG;

would never trigger. Since 'i' is of type int, so values would wrap and the
function would continue looping.

Simple fix seems to be chaning ++i to i++ and checking for '>='.

thanks,

-Jason


Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

---

 fs/compat.c |    2 +-
 fs/exec.c   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 3d4d57a..2c68dd7 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1233,7 +1233,7 @@ static int compat_count(compat_uptr_t __user *argv, int max)
 			if (!p)
 				break;
 			argv++;
-			if(++i > max)
+			if (i++ >= max)
 				return -E2BIG;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 9bf0476..7766839 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int count(char __user * __user * argv, int max)
 			if (!p)
 				break;
 			argv++;
-			if(++i > max)
+			if (i++ >= max)
 				return -E2BIG;
 			cond_resched();
 		}

             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-19 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19 15:50 Jason Baron [this message]
2008-09-19 23:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-19 23:10   ` Ollie Wild

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