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authorAlban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk>2014-08-18 12:20:20 +0100
committerZefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>2014-12-01 18:02:23 +0800
commita48fec2f276f8003fb8098df892ea3acb5d7149a (patch)
treef9215afbe8d73833a7c5eaba2f6dc54ed4b8f96c /kernel
parentc16060dfda1c8418a9e638b79f5d2101b482e89f (diff)
cgroup: reject cgroup names with ' '
commit 71b1fb5c4473a5b1e601d41b109bdfe001ec82e0 upstream. /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> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: - adjust context - s/name/dentry->d_name.name/] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 7c8f4f7d0c71..c776f8941175 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -3838,6 +3838,11 @@ static int cgroup_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
{
struct cgroup *c_parent = dentry->d_parent->d_fsdata;
+ /* Do not accept '\n' to prevent making /proc/<pid>/cgroup unparsable.
+ */
+ if (strchr(dentry->d_name.name, '\n'))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* the vfs holds inode->i_mutex already */
return cgroup_create(c_parent, dentry, mode | S_IFDIR);
}