Commit efc63c4f authored Sep 18, 2007 by Alexey Dobriyan Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 19, 2007

Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS)



struct utsname is copied from master one without any exclusion.

Here is sample output from one proggie doing

	sethostname("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa");
	sethostname("bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb");

and another

	clone(,, CLONE_NEWUTS, ...)
	uname()

	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbb'
	hostname = 'bbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
	hostname = 'aaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb'
	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb'
	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabb'
	hostname = 'aaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb'
	hostname = 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'

Hostname is sometimes corrupted.

Yes, even _the_ simplest namespace activity had bug in it. :-(

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 019ad4a0

kernel/utsname.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ static struct uts_namespace clone_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace old_ns)
		if (!ns)
		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

		down_read(&uts_sem);
		memcpy(&ns->name, &old_ns->name, sizeof(ns->name));
		up_read(&uts_sem);
		kref_init(&ns->kref);
		return ns;
		}

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