Adding upstream version 6.10.3.upstream/6.10.3

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 03b427e270..b7f2fa08d9 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -433,8 +433,23 @@ static void zap_modalias_env(struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 		len = strlen(env->envp[i]) + 1;
 
 		if (i != env->envp_idx - 1) {
+			/* @env->envp[] contains pointers to @env->buf[]
+			 * with @env->buflen chars, and we are removing
+			 * variable MODALIAS here pointed by @env->envp[i]
+			 * with length @len as shown below:
+			 *
+			 * 0               @env->buf[]      @env->buflen
+			 * ---------------------------------------------
+			 * ^             ^              ^              ^
+			 * |             |->   @len   <-| target block |
+			 * @env->envp[0] @env->envp[i]  @env->envp[i + 1]
+			 *
+			 * so the "target block" indicated above is moved
+			 * backward by @len, and its right size is
+			 * @env->buflen - (@env->envp[i + 1] - @env->envp[0]).
+			 */
 			memmove(env->envp[i], env->envp[i + 1],
-				env->buflen - len);
+				env->buflen - (env->envp[i + 1] - env->envp[0]));
 
 			for (j = i; j < env->envp_idx - 1; j++)
 				env->envp[j] = env->envp[j + 1] - len;