Re: [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:41:19 EDT, Assar said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
> > > To my reading, the 2.6.13 code does not copy the 4 bytes of length to
> > > rcvbuf.
> > 
> > Hmm... it still does this:
> > 	kaddr[len+rcvbuf->page_base] = '\0';
> > which still has a possible off-by-one? (Was that why you have -1 -4?)
> 
> The check is different.  2.6.13 is using ">=" instead of ">", so hence
> I think that's fine.

Argh.  Where's my reading glasses? ;)  Yes, a >= check works there....

> +	if (len > rcvbuf->page_len - sizeof(*strlen) - 1)
> +		len = rcvbuf->page_len - sizeof(*strlen) - 1;

OK, looks saner to me, but Trond and Marcelo probably get to make the final decision ;)

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