usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL

commit 264b83c07a84223f0efd0d1db9ccc66d6f88288f upstream.

argv_split(empty_or_all_spaces) happily succeeds, it simply returns
argc == 0 and argv[0] == NULL. Change call_usermodehelper_exec() to
check sub_info->path != NULL to avoid the crash.

This is the minimal fix, todo:

 - perhaps we should change argv_split() to return NULL or change the
   callers.

 - kill or justify ->path[0] check

 - narrow the scope of helper_lock()

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 05698a7415fea66ea604b87959bde93f5b2673a3..f2490e1dd51f7b8417283a10d1dfaceb13974bd0 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -541,6 +541,11 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
        int retval = 0;
 
        helper_lock();
+       if (!sub_info->path) {
+               retval = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0')
                goto out;