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Subject[ 095/102] usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL
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3.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit 264b83c07a84223f0efd0d1db9ccc66d6f88288f upstream.

argv_split(empty_or_all_spaces) happily succeeds, it simply returns
argc == 0 and argv[0] == NULL. Change call_usermodehelper_exec() to
check sub_info->path != NULL to avoid the crash.

This is the minimal fix, todo:

- perhaps we should change argv_split() to return NULL or change the
callers.

- kill or justify ->path[0] check

- narrow the scope of helper_lock()

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/kmod.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -570,6 +570,11 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subp
int retval = 0;

helper_lock();
+ if (!sub_info->path) {
+ retval = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0')
goto out;




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