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| author | Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> | 2010-09-09 16:37:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2011-01-06 18:07:47 -0500 |
| commit | 982ce55c5ea05debc2ca705e936580f905745618 (patch) | |
| tree | 149ee426d62d3195eaba791b3bd8996b25be420b /kernel | |
| parent | 64efb081839bff070a0f17dbf1efa73ad02371de (diff) | |
kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_search
commit 1c24de60e50fb19b94d94225458da17c720f0729 upstream.
gid_t is a unsigned int. If group_info contains a gid greater than
MAX_INT, groups_search() function may look on the wrong side of the search
tree.
This solves some unfair "permission denied" problems.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/groups.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c index 2b45b2ee3964..f0c2528f56fe 100644 --- a/kernel/groups.c +++ b/kernel/groups.c @@ -143,10 +143,9 @@ int groups_search(const struct group_info *group_info, gid_t grp) right = group_info->ngroups; while (left < right) { unsigned int mid = (left+right)/2; - int cmp = grp - GROUP_AT(group_info, mid); - if (cmp > 0) + if (grp > GROUP_AT(group_info, mid)) left = mid + 1; - else if (cmp < 0) + else if (grp < GROUP_AT(group_info, mid)) right = mid; else return 1; |