[PATCH] copy_mount_string: Limit string length to PATH_MAX

[Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.ibm.com>]

On ppc64le, When a string with PAGE_SIZE - 1 (i.e. 64k-1) length is
passed as a "filesystem type" argument to the mount(2) syscall,
copy_mount_string() ends up allocating 64k (the PAGE_SIZE on ppc64le)
worth of space for holding the string in kernel's address space.

Later, in set_precision() (invoked by get_fs_type() ->
__request_module() -> vsnprintf()), we end up assigning
strlen(fs-type-string) i.e. 65535 as the
value to 'struct printf_spec'->precision member. This field has a width
of 16 bits and it is a signed data type. Hence an invalid value ends
up getting assigned. This causes the "WARN_ONCE(spec->precision != prec,
"precision %d too large", prec)" statement inside set_precision() to be
executed.

This commit fixes the bug by limiting the length of the string passed by
copy_mount_string() to strndup_user() to PATH_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/namespace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 09d2aec0f88c..103513f07483 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@ void *copy_mount_options(const void __user * data)
 
 char *copy_mount_string(const void __user *data)
 {
-	return data ? strndup_user(data, PAGE_SIZE) : NULL;
+	return data ? strndup_user(data, PATH_MAX) : NULL;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
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