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authorAl Viro2024-07-21 14:45:08 -0400
committerAl Viro2024-08-12 21:58:44 -0400
commit046667c4d3196938e992fba0dfcde570aa85cd0e (patch)
tree282b1588197e90255a770e210c92fa3820e38157 /mm
parent9a2fa1472083580b6c66bdaf291f591e1170123a (diff)
memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops
we are *not* guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane). Fixes: 0dea116876ee ("cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol-v1.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
index 2aeea4d8bf8e..417c96f2da28 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -1842,9 +1842,12 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
buf = endp + 1;
cfd = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 10);
- if ((*endp != ' ') && (*endp != '\0'))
+ if (*endp == '\0')
+ buf = endp;
+ else if (*endp == ' ')
+ buf = endp + 1;
+ else
return -EINVAL;
- buf = endp + 1;
event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!event)