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Jan Harkes committed d337b66a4c5
coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync When an application called fsync on a file in Coda a small request with just the file identifier was allocated, but the declared length was set to the size of union of all possible upcall requests. This bug has been around for a very long time and is now caught by the extra checking in usercopy that was introduced in Linux-4.8. The exposure happens when the Coda cache manager process reads the fsync upcall request at which point it is killed. As a result there is nobody servicing any further upcalls, trapping any processes that try to access the mounted Coda filesystem. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>