aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch/parisc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/parisc')
-rw-r--r--arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c b/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c
index 29b4d61898f..05273ccced0 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c
@@ -468,19 +468,23 @@ int hpux_sysfs(int opcode, unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2)
if ( opcode == 1 ) { /* GETFSIND */
len = strlen_user((char *)arg1);
printk(KERN_DEBUG "len of arg1 = %d\n", len);
-
- fsname = (char *) kmalloc(len+1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (len == 0)
+ return 0;
+ fsname = (char *) kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if ( !fsname ) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "failed to kmalloc fsname\n");
return 0;
}
- if ( copy_from_user(fsname, (char *)arg1, len+1) ) {
+ if ( copy_from_user(fsname, (char *)arg1, len) ) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "failed to copy_from_user fsname\n");
kfree(fsname);
return 0;
}
+ /* String could be altered by userspace after strlen_user() */
+ fsname[len] = '\0';
+
printk(KERN_DEBUG "that is '%s' as (char *)\n", fsname);
if ( !strcmp(fsname, "hfs") ) {
fstype = 0;