[PATCH] squash: review-updates

William Roberts bill.c.roberts at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 20:44:00 UTC 2014


Signed-off-by: William Roberts <wroberts at tresys.com>
---
 kernel/auditsc.c |   19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index a4c2003..9ba1f2a 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1292,9 +1292,20 @@ static void audit_log_cmdline(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk,
 		if (!buf)
 			goto out;
 		res = get_cmdline(tsk, buf, PATH_MAX);
-		/* Ensure NULL terminated */
-		if (buf[res-1] != '\0')
-			buf[res-1] = '\0';
+		if (res == 0) {
+			kfree(buf);
+			goto out;
+		}
+		/*
+		 * Ensure NULL terminated but don't clobber the end
+		 * unless the buffer is full. Worst case you end up
+		 * with 2 null bytes ending it. By doing it this way
+		 * one avoids additional branching. One checking if the
+		 * end is null and another to check if their should be
+		 * an increment before setting the null byte.
+		 */
+		res += res < PATH_MAX;
+		buf[res-1] = '\0';
 		context->cmdline = buf;
 	}
 	msg = context->cmdline;
@@ -1333,8 +1344,8 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context *context, struct task_struct *ts
 			 context->name_count);
 
 	audit_log_task_info(ab, tsk);
-	audit_log_cmdline(ab, tsk, context);
 	audit_log_key(ab, context->filterkey);
+	audit_log_cmdline(ab, tsk, context);
 	audit_log_end(ab);
 
 	for (aux = context->aux; aux; aux = aux->next) {
-- 
1.7.9.5




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