[PATCH] add check to /proc/devices read routines

Patch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads
of /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096
bytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and
block devices in a system

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Neil Horman
2005-06-23 00:09:11 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3bc1ee3e8f
commit ac20427ef6
4 changed files with 24 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -56,10 +56,21 @@ int get_chrdev_list(char *page)
down(&chrdevs_lock);
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(chrdevs) ; i++) {
for (cd = chrdevs[i]; cd; cd = cd->next)
for (cd = chrdevs[i]; cd; cd = cd->next) {
/*
* if the current name, plus the 5 extra characters
* in the device line for this entry
* would run us off the page, we're done
*/
if ((len+strlen(cd->name) + 5) >= PAGE_SIZE)
goto page_full;
len += sprintf(page+len, "%3d %s\n",
cd->major, cd->name);
}
}
page_full:
up(&chrdevs_lock);
return len;