[PATCH] nfsd: fix buffer overrun decoding NFSv4 acl

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 14:51:20 EST


The array we kmalloc() here is not large enough.

Thanks to Johann Dahm and David Richter for bug report and testing.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Richter <richterd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Johann Dahm <jdahm@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
index b6ed383..54b8b41 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ init_state(struct posix_acl_state *state, int cnt)
* enough space for either:
*/
alloc = sizeof(struct posix_ace_state_array)
- + cnt*sizeof(struct posix_ace_state);
+ + cnt*sizeof(struct posix_user_ace_state);
state->users = kzalloc(alloc, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!state->users)
return -ENOMEM;
--
1.5.5.rc1

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