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usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL

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commit 264b83c07a upstream.

argv_split(empty_or_all_spaces) happily succeeds, it simply returns
argc == 0 and argv[0] == NULL. Change call_usermodehelper_exec() to
check sub_info->path != NULL to avoid the crash.

This is the minimal fix, todo:

 - perhaps we should change argv_split() to return NULL or change the
   callers.

 - kill or justify ->path[0] check

 - narrow the scope of helper_lock()

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2013-05-16 17:43:55 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent ac087d8e21
commit 49432a0018
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@ -421,6 +421,11 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
int retval = 0;
helper_lock();
if (!sub_info->path) {
retval = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0')
goto out;