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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/8] dm: prevent possible buffer overflow in ioctl interface
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On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:25, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > + char *name = kmalloc(DM_NAME_LEN + strlen(DM_DIR) + 1);
> > + if (!name) {
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + }
>
> Also, kmalloc() needs a second "GFP_xxx" parameter (I guess GFP_KERNEL
> in this case, although I don't know the context this function is
> called from).
>
> - Roland

Dammit! I'm not having a good morning. :(

Unfortunately, Linus seems to have committed that patch already. So here is a
patch to fix just that line.

Thanks for catching that.

--
Kevin Corry
corryk@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/

--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c 2003/02/27 16:29:58
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c 2003/02/27 16:30:03
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
static int register_with_devfs(struct hash_cell *hc)
{
struct gendisk *disk = dm_disk(hc->md);
- char *name = kmalloc(DM_NAME_LEN + strlen(DM_DIR) + 1);
+ char *name = kmalloc(DM_NAME_LEN + strlen(DM_DIR) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name) {
return -ENOMEM;
}
-
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