Commit 046667c4 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro

memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops

we are *not* guaranteed that anything past the terminating NUL
is mapped (let alone initialized with anything sane).

Fixes: 0dea1168 ("cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 9a2fa147
......@@ -1842,9 +1842,12 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
buf = endp + 1;
cfd = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 10);
if ((*endp != ' ') && (*endp != '\0'))
if (*endp == '\0')
buf = endp;
else if (*endp == ' ')
buf = endp + 1;
else
return -EINVAL;
buf = endp + 1;
event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!event)
......
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