mm/mempolicy.c: fix out of bounds write in mpol_parse_str()

What we are trying to do is change the '=' character to a NUL terminator
and then at the end of the function we restore it back to an '='.  The
problem is there are two error paths where we jump to the end of the
function before we have replaced the '=' with NUL.

We end up putting the '=' in the wrong place (possibly one element
before the start of the buffer).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Reported-by: [email protected]
Fixes: 095f1fc4ebf3 ("mempolicy: rework shmem mpol parsing and display")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index b2920ae87a61..977c641f78cf 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2821,6 +2821,9 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol)
 	char *flags = strchr(str, '=');
 	int err = 1, mode;
 
+	if (flags)
+		*flags++ = '\0';	/* terminate mode string */
+
 	if (nodelist) {
 		/* NUL-terminate mode or flags string */
 		*nodelist++ = '\0';
@@ -2831,9 +2834,6 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol)
 	} else
 		nodes_clear(nodes);
 
-	if (flags)
-		*flags++ = '\0';	/* terminate mode string */
-
 	mode = match_string(policy_modes, MPOL_MAX, str);
 	if (mode < 0)
 		goto out;