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authorAdam B. Jerome <abj@novell.com>2006-07-12 09:03:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-07-12 12:52:55 -0700
commit0635170b544b01b46a81b4ac5cff5020ab59d1fc (patch)
tree743144ec50b98b1b16df6dfe1448584b946aae2e /fs/proc
parent232ba9dbd68bb084d5d90c511f207d18eae614da (diff)
[PATCH] /fs/proc/: 'larger than buffer size' memory accessed by clear_user()
Address a potential 'larger than buffer size' memory access by clear_user(). Without this patch, this call to clear_user() can attempt to clear too many (tsz) bytes resulting in a wrong (-EFAULT) return code by read_kcore(). Signed-off-by: Adam B. Jerome <abj@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/kcore.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index 8d6d85d7400..6a984f64edd 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
*/
if (n) {
if (clear_user(buffer + tsz - n,
- tsz - n))
+ n))
return -EFAULT;
}
} else {