/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.
I use < 0x20 as seen in vfat_bad_char; is it safe to use isprint()?
Signed-off-by: Alban Crequy <alban.cre...@collabora.co.uk>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 70776ae..e2df5e7 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4378,6 +4378,20 @@ err_free_css:
return err;
}
+/* Inspired by vfat_bad_char: do not accept non-printing characters. In
+ * particular, reject '\n' to prevent making /proc/<pid>/cgroup unparsable.
+ */
+static inline int cgroup_is_used_badchars(const char *s)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++)
+ if (s[i] < 0x20)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int cgroup_mkdir(struct kernfs_node *parent_kn, const char *name,
umode_t mode)
{
@@ -4387,6 +4401,11 @@ static int cgroup_mkdir(struct kernfs_node *parent_kn,
const char *name,
struct kernfs_node *kn;
int ssid, ret;
+ /* do not create cgroups with bad names */
+ ret = cgroup_is_used_badchars(name);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
parent = cgroup_kn_lock_live(parent_kn);
if (!parent)
return -ENODEV;
--
1.8.5.3
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