Patch "ovl: listxattr: use strnlen()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ovl: listxattr: use strnlen()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ovl-listxattr-use-strnlen.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:12:00 +0200
Subject: ovl: listxattr: use strnlen()

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

commit 7cb35119d067191ce9ebc380a599db0b03cbd9d9 upstream.

Be defensive about what underlying fs provides us in the returned xattr list buffer. If it's not properly null terminated, bail out with a warning insead of BUG.

---
 fs/overlayfs/inode.c |   17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ ssize_t ovl_listxattr(struct dentry *den
 	struct path realpath;
 	enum ovl_path_type type = ovl_path_real(dentry, &realpath);
 	ssize_t res;
-	int off;
+	size_t len;
+	char *s;
 
 	res = vfs_listxattr(realpath.dentry, list, size);
 	if (res <= 0 || size == 0)

@@ -287,17 +288,19 @@ ssize_t ovl_listxattr(struct dentry *den
 		return res;
 
 	/* filter out private xattrs */
-	for (off = 0; off < res;) {
-		char *s = list + off;
-		size_t slen = strlen(s) + 1;
+	for (s = list, len = res; len;) {
+		size_t slen = strnlen(s, len) + 1;
 
-		BUG_ON(off + slen > res);
+		/* underlying fs providing us with an broken xattr list? */
+		if (WARN_ON(slen > len))
+			return -EIO;
 
+		len -= slen;
 		if (ovl_is_private_xattr(s)) {
 			res -= slen;
-			memmove(s, s + slen, res - off);
+			memmove(s, s + slen, len);
 		} else {
-			off += slen;
+			s += slen;
 		}
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ovl-listxattr-use-strnlen.patch queue-4.4/ovl-remove-posix_acl_default-from-workdir.patch queue-4.4/ovl-don-t-copy-up-opaqueness.patch queue-4.4/ovl-proper-cleanup-of-workdir.patch queue-4.4/ovl-fix-workdir-creation.patch