[lxc-devel] [PATCH] Do not use strlen() on non-null terminated buffer

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Tue Sep 8 02:36:20 UTC 2015


Quoting Christian Brauner (christianvanbrauner at gmail.com):
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christianvanbrauner at gmail.com>

Thanks, this looks good, but I'd like to give it another
look with a fresh pair of eyes in the morning.

(and maybe write a testcase)

> ---
>  src/lxc/lxccontainer.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
> index 932d658..fb99892 100644
> --- a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
> +++ b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
> @@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ static bool mod_rdep(struct lxc_container *c0, struct lxc_container *c, bool inc
>  	char newpath[MAXPATHLEN];
>  	int fd, ret, n = 0, v = 0;
>  	bool bret = false;
> -	size_t len;
> +	size_t len, difflen;
>  
>  	if (container_disk_lock(c0))
>  		return false;
> @@ -2072,19 +2072,22 @@ static bool mod_rdep(struct lxc_container *c0, struct lxc_container *c, bool inc
>  
>  			/* mmap()ed memory is only \0-terminated when it is not
>  			 * a multiple of a pagesize. Hence, we'll use memmem(). */
> -			if ((del = memmem(buf, fbuf.st_size, newpath, len))) {
> -				/* remove container entry */
> -				memmove(del, del + len, strlen(del) - len + 1);
> -
> -				munmap(buf, fbuf.st_size);
> -
> -				if (ftruncate(fd, fbuf.st_size - len) < 0) {
> -					SYSERROR("Failed to truncate file %s", path);
> -					close(fd);
> -					goto out;
> -				}
> -			} else {
> -				munmap(buf, fbuf.st_size);
> +                        if ((del = memmem(buf, fbuf.st_size, newpath, len))) {
> +                                /* remove container entry */
> +                                if (del != buf + fbuf.st_size - len) {
> +                                        difflen = fbuf.st_size - (del-buf);
> +                                        memmove(del, del + len, strnlen(del, difflen) - len);
> +                                }
> +
> +                                munmap(buf, fbuf.st_size);
> +
> +                                if (ftruncate(fd, fbuf.st_size - len) < 0) {
> +                                        SYSERROR("Failed to truncate file %s", path);
> +                                        close(fd);
> +                                        goto out;
> +                                }
> +                        } else {
> +                                munmap(buf, fbuf.st_size);
>  			}
>  
>  			close(fd);
> -- 
> 2.5.1
> 


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