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[1/5] fsdev: Fix overrun after readlink() fills buffer completely

Message ID 1394205380-31875-2-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
State New
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Aneesh Kumar K.V March 7, 2014, 3:16 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

readlink() returns the number of bytes written to the buffer, and it
doesn't write a terminating null byte.  do_readlink() writes it
itself.  Overruns the buffer when readlink() filled it completely.

Fix by reserving space for the null byte when calling readlink(), like
we do elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
index 713a7b2b87a4..bfecb8706c85 100644
--- a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
+++ b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@  static int do_readlink(struct iovec *iovec, struct iovec *out_iovec)
     }
     buffer = g_malloc(size);
     v9fs_string_init(&target);
-    retval = readlink(path.data, buffer, size);
+    retval = readlink(path.data, buffer, size - 1);
     if (retval > 0) {
         buffer[retval] = '\0';
         v9fs_string_sprintf(&target, "%s", buffer);