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Message-ID: <20180307054608.GA9300@beast>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:46:08 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>,
	Gargi Sharma <gs051095@...il.com>, lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: lustre: Remove VLA usage

The kernel would like to remove all VLA usage. This switches to a
simple kasprintf() instead.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c
index 532384c91447..aab4eab64289 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ ll_xattr_set_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 		    const char *name, const void *value, size_t size,
 		    int flags)
 {
-	char fullname[strlen(handler->prefix) + strlen(name) + 1];
+	char *fullname;
 	struct ll_sb_info *sbi = ll_i2sbi(inode);
 	struct ptlrpc_request *req = NULL;
 	const char *pv = value;
@@ -141,10 +141,13 @@ ll_xattr_set_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 			return -EPERM;
 	}
 
-	sprintf(fullname, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
+	fullname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
+	if (!fullname)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	rc = md_setxattr(sbi->ll_md_exp, ll_inode2fid(inode),
 			 valid, fullname, pv, size, 0, flags,
 			 ll_i2suppgid(inode), &req);
+	kfree(fullname);
 	if (rc) {
 		if (rc == -EOPNOTSUPP && handler->flags == XATTR_USER_T) {
 			LCONSOLE_INFO("Disabling user_xattr feature because it is not supported on the server\n");
@@ -364,7 +367,7 @@ static int ll_xattr_get_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 			       struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
 			       const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
 {
-	char fullname[strlen(handler->prefix) + strlen(name) + 1];
+	char *fullname;
 	struct ll_sb_info *sbi = ll_i2sbi(inode);
 #ifdef CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL
 	struct ll_inode_info *lli = ll_i2info(inode);
@@ -411,9 +414,13 @@ static int ll_xattr_get_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 	if (handler->flags == XATTR_ACL_DEFAULT_T && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
 		return -ENODATA;
 #endif
-	sprintf(fullname, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
-	return ll_xattr_list(inode, fullname, handler->flags, buffer, size,
-			     OBD_MD_FLXATTR);
+	fullname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
+	if (!fullname)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	rc = ll_xattr_list(inode, fullname, handler->flags, buffer, size,
+			   OBD_MD_FLXATTR);
+	kfree(fullname);
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static ssize_t ll_getxattr_lov(struct inode *inode, void *buf, size_t buf_size)
-- 
2.7.4


-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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