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| author | Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk> | 2014-08-18 12:20:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2014-08-18 10:18:57 -0400 |
| commit | 71b1fb5c4473a5b1e601d41b109bdfe001ec82e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6116b623ff191046a53f6a93906f17d7e9d4afec /kernel/cgroup.c | |
| parent | 7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9 (diff) | |
cgroup: reject cgroup names with '\n'
/proc/<pid>/cgroup contains one cgroup path on each line. If cgroup names are
allowed to contain "\n", applications cannot parse /proc/<pid>/cgroup safely.
Signed-off-by: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 7dc8788cfd52..c3d1802a9b30 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4543,6 +4543,11 @@ static int cgroup_mkdir(struct kernfs_node *parent_kn, const char *name, struct cftype *base_files; int ssid, ret; + /* Do not accept '\n' to prevent making /proc/<pid>/cgroup unparsable. + */ + if (strchr(name, '\n')) + return -EINVAL; + parent = cgroup_kn_lock_live(parent_kn); if (!parent) return -ENODEV; |