coredump: fix null pointer dereference on coredump
authorSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 01:14:20 +0000 (18:14 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:11:56 +0000 (11:11 -0700)
If the core_pattern is set to "|" and any process segfaults then we get
a null pointer derefernce while trying to coredump. The call stack shows:

    RIP: do_coredump+0x628/0x11c0

When the core_pattern has only "|" there is no use of trying the
coredump and we can check that while formating the corename and exit
with an error.

After this change I get:

    format_corename failed
    Aborting core

Fixes: 315c69261dd3 ("coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template")
Reported-by: Matthew Ruffell <matthew.ruffell@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416194612.21418-1-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/coredump.c

index f8296a8..408418e 100644 (file)
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int format_corename(struct core_name *cn, struct coredump_params *cprm,
                        return -ENOMEM;
                (*argv)[(*argc)++] = 0;
                ++pat_ptr;
+               if (!(*pat_ptr))
+                       return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
        /* Repeat as long as we have more pattern to process and more output