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author | Robert Richter <[email protected]> | 2011-12-19 16:38:30 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2011-12-19 17:18:43 +0100 |
commit | 913050b91eb94f194392dd797b1ff3779f606ac0 (patch) | |
tree | bcb861e17dc40875ef0f694641392b7177f04852 /net/lapb/lapb_subr.c | |
parent | 497f16f21a04060098c0da6ed522fbcafb90c0db (diff) |
oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
If oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() is called with count equals
zero, *val remains unchanged. Depending on the implementation it
might be uninitialized.
Change oprofilefs_ulong_from_user()'s interface to return count
on success. Thus, we are able to return early if count equals
zero which avoids using *val uninitialized. Fixing all users of
oprofilefs_ulong_ from_user().
This follows write syscall implementation when count is zero:
"If count is zero ... [and if] no errors are detected, 0 will be
returned without causing any other effect." (man 2 write)
Reported-By: Mike Waychison <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: oprofile-list <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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