kern/138557: [patch] fix truncated witness sysctl string due to incorrect use of sizeof

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Sat Sep 5 21:00:14 UTC 2009


>Number:         138557
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [patch] fix truncated witness sysctl string due to incorrect use of sizeof
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 05 21:00:13 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bruce Cran
>Release:        8.0-BETA3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD gluon.draftnet 8.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 #1: Fri Sep  4 09:20:32 BST 2009     brucec at gluon.draftnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
In sys/kern/subr_witness.c the strings "Witness not running" and "Witness is still cold" get truncated to "Witn" in the sysctl tree because sizeof is used instead of strlen. 
>How-To-Repeat:
sysctl debug.witness.watch=0
sysctl debug.witness.badstacks

>Fix:


Patch attached with submission follows:

--- subr_witness.c.orig	2009-09-05 21:24:40.000000000 +0100
+++ subr_witness.c	2009-09-05 21:25:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -2378,11 +2378,11 @@
 	tmp_w1 = NULL;
 	tmp_w2 = NULL;
 	if (witness_watch < 1) {
-		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_notrunning, sizeof(w_notrunning));
+		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_notrunning, strlen(w_notrunning) + 1);
 		return (error);
 	}
 	if (witness_cold) {
-		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_stillcold, sizeof(w_stillcold));
+		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_stillcold, strlen(w_stillcold) + 1);
 		return (error);
 	}
 	error = 0;
@@ -2530,11 +2530,11 @@
 	int error;
 
 	if (witness_watch < 1) {
-		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_notrunning, sizeof(w_notrunning));
+		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_notrunning, strlen(w_notrunning) + 1);
 		return (error);
 	}
 	if (witness_cold) {
-		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_stillcold, sizeof(w_stillcold));
+		error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, w_stillcold, strlen(w_stillcold) + 1);
 		return (error);
 	}
 	error = 0;


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