[PATCH] reject '\n' in a cgroup name

[Paul Menage]

Looks sensible - maybe we should ban all characters not in [a-zA-Z0-9._-] ?

Paul

On Jan 23, 2008 9:20 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto at valinux.co.jp> wrote:
> hi,
>
> the following patch rejects '\n' in a cgroup name.
> otherwise /proc/$$/cgroup is not parsable.
>
> example:
>         imawoto% cat /proc/$$/cgroup
>         memory:/
>         imawoto% mkdir -p "
>         memory:/foo"
>         imawoto% echo $$ >| "
>         memory:/foo/tasks"
>         imawoto% cat /proc/$$/cgroup
>         memory:/
>         memory:/foo
>         imawoto%
>
> YAMAMOTO Takashi
>
>
> Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto at valinux.co.jp>
> ---
>
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/kernel/cgroup.c.BACKUP 2008-01-23 14:43:29.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/kernel/cgroup.c        2008-01-24 13:56:28.000000000 +0900
> @@ -2216,6 +2216,10 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup
>         struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
>         struct super_block *sb = root->sb;
>
> +       /* reject a newline.  otherwise /proc/$$/cgroup is not parsable. */
> +       if (strchr(dentry->d_name.name, '\n'))
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +
>         cgrp = kzalloc(sizeof(*cgrp), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!cgrp)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
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