Re: [PATCH] perf annotate: fix heap overflow

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Oct 28 2019 - 15:29:20 EST


On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:56:44PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Fix expand_tabs that copies the source lines '\0' and then appends
> another '\0' at a potentially out of bounds address.

not sure it could get out of bounds, but i think
the change is right, it matches the memcpy before
and I dont see reason to add +1

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka


>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> index ef1866a902c4..bee0fee122f8 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ static char *expand_tabs(char *line, char **storage, size_t *storage_len)
> }
>
> /* Expand the last region. */
> - len = line_len + 1 - src;
> + len = line_len - src;
> memcpy(&new_line[dst], &line[src], len);
> dst += len;
> new_line[dst] = '\0';
> --
> 2.24.0.rc0.303.g954a862665-goog
>