__dev_alloc_name is called from the public (and exported)
dev_alloc_name(), so we don't have a guarantee that strlen(name) is at
most IFNAMSIZ. If somebody manages to get __dev_alloc_name called with a
% char beyond the 31st character, we'd be making a snprintf() call that
will very easily crash the kernel (using an appropriate %p extension,
we'll likely dereference some completely bogus pointer).
In the normal case where strlen() is sane, we don't even save anything
by limiting to IFNAMSIZ, so just use strchr().
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 11596a302a26..87e19804757b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ static int __dev_alloc_name(struct net *net, const char
*name, char *buf)
unsigned long *inuse;
struct net_device *d;
- p = strnchr(name, IFNAMSIZ-1, '%');
+ p = strchr(name, '%');
if (p) {
/*
* Verify the string as this thing may have come from
--
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