From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:56:02 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: nfsd: don't allow zero length strings in cache_parse()
X-Git-Tag: v3.4-rc1~40^2~52
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d8d17499810479eabd10731179c04b2ca22152f;p=karo-tx-linux.git

nfsd: don't allow zero length strings in cache_parse()

There is no point in passing a zero length string here and quite a
few of that cache_parse() implementations will Oops if count is
zero.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 465df9ae1046..8c6598e0334a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -828,6 +828,8 @@ static ssize_t cache_do_downcall(char *kaddr, const char __user *buf,
 {
 	ssize_t ret;
 
+	if (count == 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
 	if (copy_from_user(kaddr, buf, count))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	kaddr[count] = '\0';