[net-next,v1,3/5] net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write()

Commit Message

Peter Seiderer Jan. 17, 2025, 2:16 p.m. UTC

Honour the user given buffer size for the strn_len() calls (otherwise
strn_len() will access memory outside of the user given buffer).

Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <[e-mail]>
---
 net/core/pktgen.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index 4f8ec6c9bed4..9536f9c4d9ef 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -1897,8 +1897,8 @@  static ssize_t pktgen_thread_write(struct file *file,
 	i = len;
 
 	/* Read variable name */
-
-	len = strn_len(&user_buffer[i], sizeof(name) - 1);
+	max = min(sizeof(name) - 1, count - i);
+	len = strn_len(&user_buffer[i], max);
 	if (len < 0)
 		return len;
 
@@ -1928,7 +1928,8 @@  static ssize_t pktgen_thread_write(struct file *file,
 	if (!strcmp(name, "add_device")) {
 		char f[32];
 		memset(f, 0, 32);
-		len = strn_len(&user_buffer[i], sizeof(f) - 1);
+		max = min(sizeof(f) - 1, count - i);
+		len = strn_len(&user_buffer[i], max);
 		if (len < 0) {
 			ret = len;
 			goto out;