cgroup: reject cgroup names with '\n'
/proc/<pid>/cgroup contains one cgroup path on each line. If cgroup names are
allowed to contain "\n", applications cannot parse /proc/<pid>/cgroup safely.
Signed-off-by: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 7dc8788..c3d1802 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4543,6 +4543,11 @@
struct cftype *base_files;
int ssid, ret;
+ /* Do not accept '\n' to prevent making /proc/<pid>/cgroup unparsable.
+ */
+ if (strchr(name, '\n'))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
parent = cgroup_kn_lock_live(parent_kn);
if (!parent)
return -ENODEV;
