s390/keyboard: avoid off-by-one when using strnlen_user()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:38:39 +0000 (12:38 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:51:12 +0000 (10:51 +0200)
strnlen_user() returns the length of the string including terminating 0.
So avoid counting it again and unnecessarily reducing maximum string
size by 1.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c

index 01463b0..ef04a9f 100644 (file)
@@ -433,20 +433,23 @@ do_kdgkb_ioctl(struct kbd_data *kbd, struct kbsentry __user *u_kbs,
        case KDSKBSENT:
                if (!perm)
                        return -EPERM;
-               len = strnlen_user(u_kbs->kb_string,
-                                  sizeof(u_kbs->kb_string) - 1);
+               len = strnlen_user(u_kbs->kb_string, sizeof(u_kbs->kb_string));
                if (!len)
                        return -EFAULT;
-               if (len > sizeof(u_kbs->kb_string) - 1)
+               if (len > sizeof(u_kbs->kb_string))
                        return -EINVAL;
-               p = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+               p = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!p)
                        return -ENOMEM;
                if (copy_from_user(p, u_kbs->kb_string, len)) {
                        kfree(p);
                        return -EFAULT;
                }
-               p[len] = 0;
+               /*
+                * Make sure the string is terminated by 0. User could have
+                * modified it between us running strnlen_user() and copying it.
+                */
+               p[len - 1] = 0;
                kfree(kbd->func_table[kb_func]);
                kbd->func_table[kb_func] = p;
                break;