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tracing: Fix regex_match_front() to not over compare the test string

The regex match function regex_match_front() in the tracing filter logic,
was fixed to test just the pattern length from testing the entire test
string. That is, it went from strncmp(str, r->pattern, len) to
strcmp(str, r->pattern, r->len).

The issue is that str is not guaranteed to be nul terminated, and if r->len
is greater than the length of str, it can access more memory than is
allocated.

The solution is to add a simple test if (len < r->len) return 0.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 285caad415f45 ("tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt (VMware) 7 years ago
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      kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

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kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

@@ -762,6 +762,9 @@ static int regex_match_full(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
 
 static int regex_match_front(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
 {
+	if (len < r->len)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (strncmp(str, r->pattern, r->len) == 0)
 		return 1;
 	return 0;