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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:27:46 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        adrian@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fix for mountpath lenght
Message-ID:  <20010215102746.H3274@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010215101512.F3274@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:15:12AM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102151824320.5862-100000@levais.imp.ch> <20010215101512.F3274@fw.wintelcom.net>

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* Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> [010215 10:15] wrote:
> This looks right, except that Bruce says that SCARG isn't to be
> used, instead just use uap->path.

Also, you can't call strlen on a userland pointer.  please test patches
before submitting them!

> 
> -Alfred
> 
> * Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> [010215 09:46] wrote:
> > 
> > In mount.h, we have a #define MNAMELEN        80
> > 
> > and in struct statfs {} we have:
> > 
> > char    f_mntonname[MNAMELEN];  /* directory on which mounted */
> > 
> > but the kernel does no check to see if the mountpath is longer
> > than MNAMELEN, it just accepts it ? It's impossible to umount(8)
> > it, because umount(8) does not like to unmount some device which
> > does not belong to the mountpoint.
> > 
> > --- vfs_syscalls.c      Sun Nov 26 03:30:05 2000
> > +++ vfs_syscalls.c.new  Thu Feb 15 18:22:13 2001
> > @@ -140,6 +140,8 @@
> >         /*
> >          * Get vnode to be covered
> >          */
> > +       if (strlen(SCARG(uap, path)) > MNAMELEN)
> > +               return (ENAMETOOLONG);
> >         NDINIT(&nd, LOOKUP, FOLLOW | LOCKLEAF, UIO_USERSPACE,
> >             SCARG(uap, path), p);
> >         if ((error = namei(&nd)) != 0)
> > 
> > Martin Blapp, mb@imp.ch
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> -- 
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
> 
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