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Subject[patch 03/26] sysfs: zero terminate sysfs write buffers (CVE-2006-1055)
No one should be writing a PAGE_SIZE worth of data to a normal sysfs
file, so properly terminate the buffer.

Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out my stupidity here.

CVE-2006-1055 has been assigned for this.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
fs/sysfs/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.16.1.orig/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.1/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ fill_write_buffer(struct sysfs_buffer *
return -ENOMEM;

if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
- count = PAGE_SIZE;
+ count = PAGE_SIZE - 1;
error = copy_from_user(buffer->page,buf,count);
buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
return error ? -EFAULT : count;
--
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