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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2009-03-26 23:05:15 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-05-02 10:23:35 -0700
commit080be8b26ef33af424efb9a64c95cd7766cdc114 (patch)
tree0496770eaa7a98b7e6fb93d513a2a5d4f21e51ae
parentb35d63e5d76dae5b1c5f796a78df6e8fc2b76850 (diff)
CIFS: Fix memory overwrite when saving nativeFileSystem field during mount
upstream commit: b363b3304bcf68c4541683b2eff70b29f0446a5b CIFS can allocate a few bytes to little for the nativeFileSystem field during tree connect response processing during mount. This can result in a "Redzone overwritten" message to be logged. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Vinay <vinaysridhar@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com> CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> [chrisw: minor backport to CHANGES file] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/CHANGES3
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/connect.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 088e9ae5c58..455257e71e0 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
Fix oops in cifs_dfs_ref.c when prefixpath is not reachable when using DFS.
+Fix "redzone overwritten" bug in cifs_put_tcon (CIFSTcon may allocate too
+little memory for the "nativeFileSystem" field returned by the server
+during mount).
Version 1.54
------------
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index f254235814a..21a1abfbb44 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -3549,7 +3549,7 @@ CIFSTCon(unsigned int xid, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
BCC(smb_buffer_response)) {
kfree(tcon->nativeFileSystem);
tcon->nativeFileSystem =
- kzalloc(length + 2, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kzalloc(2*(length + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
if (tcon->nativeFileSystem)
cifs_strfromUCS_le(
tcon->nativeFileSystem,