3.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alban Crequy <[email protected]>

commit 71b1fb5c4473a5b1e601d41b109bdfe001ec82e0 upstream.

/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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/cgroup.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4393,6 +4393,11 @@ static int cgroup_mkdir(struct kernfs_no
        struct kernfs_node *kn;
        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;


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