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mdadm: protecting sys_name overflow

PATCH New Nikhil Kshirsagar 1 participant 1 message Jun 16, 2016 MD RAID

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PATCH 1/1 mdadm: protecting sys_name overflow

Hello,

(Corrected indentation and code formatting, and re-posting this patch.)

Devices with names larger than 31 bytes will overflow the sys_name array.

This patch enables mdadm to fail and log a message if a long device name is going to cause a buffer overflow.

From 8198c463c3199c8207dd16cefac23197b16d8a09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikhil Kshirsagar <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:25:07 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Protecting overflow of sys_name. If a long device name is
going to cause a buffer overflow, we fail with a log message.

---
 sysfs.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
sysfs.c +7 -0
index 8379ca8..d346fe9 100644
@@ -283,6 +283,13 @@ struct mdinfo *sysfs_read(int fd, char *devnm, unsigned long options)
 			}
 
 		}
+
+		/*  strlen computes length of string *not* including the terminating null character. */
+		if (strlen(de->d_name) >= sizeof(dev->sys_name)) {
+			pr_err("Device name %s larger than currently supported by mdadm\n",de->d_name);
+			free(dev);
+			goto abort;
+		}
 		strcpy(dev->sys_name, de->d_name);
 		dev->disk.raid_disk = strtoul(buf, &ep, 10);
 		if (*ep) dev->disk.raid_disk = -1;
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