ext4: prevent stack overrun in ext4_file_open
authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:18:41 +0000 (09:18 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:18:41 +0000 (09:18 -0400)
commitcf8039036a6e9c5f7144841925f212a957faf1aa
tree660c82cd18b64ba27d84edd13336ac42efc04040
parenta4e5d88b1b24827f4f6a3cba43228936a67d81ba
ext4: prevent stack overrun in ext4_file_open

In ext4_file_open, the filesystem records the mountpoint of the first
file that is opened after mounting the filesystem.  It does this by
allocating a 64-byte stack buffer, calling d_path() to grab the mount
point through which this file was accessed, and then memcpy()ing 64
bytes into the superblock's s_last_mounted field, starting from the
return value of d_path(), which is stored as "cp".  However, if cp >
buf (which it frequently is since path components are prepended
starting at the end of buf) then we can end up copying stack data into
the superblock.

Writing stack variables into the superblock doesn't sound like a great
idea, so use strlcpy instead.  Andi Kleen suggested using strlcpy
instead of strncpy.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/file.c