Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2014-08-17

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] cgroup: reject cgroup names with non-printing characters

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: 2014-08-17 13:42:06
Also in: lkml

Hello, Alban.

Sorry about the delay.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 04:11:56PM +0100, Alban Crequy wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -4387,6 +4401,11 @@ static int cgroup_mkdir(struct kernfs_node *parent_kn, const char *name,
 	struct kernfs_node *kn;
 	int ssid, ret;
 
+	/* do not create cgroups with bad names */
+	ret = cgroup_is_used_badchars(name);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
Let's just reject '\n'.  That should give us a way to parse the path
correctly and I don't want to put more-than-necessary interpretation
on the path string.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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