119e9aef45
commit b8e51a6a9db94bc1fb18ae831b3dab106b5a4b5f upstream. The problem is that we were putting the NUL terminator too far: buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0'; If the user input isn't NUL terminated and they haven't initialized the whole buffer then it leads to an info leak. The NUL terminator should be: buf[len - 1] = '\0'; Signed-off-by: Yihui Zeng <yzeng56@asu.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: keep semantics of how *lenp and *ppos are handled] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.