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author | Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> | 2011-11-07 16:10:24 +0000 |
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committer | Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> | 2011-11-08 10:48:23 -0600 |
commit | b52a360b2aa1c59ba9970fb0f52bbb093fcc7a24 (patch) | |
tree | b8710ad524592faac1427d2155aaf4ba29a80cf8 /Documentation/serial/sx.txt | |
parent | 1ea6b8f48918282bdca0b32a34095504ee65bab5 (diff) |
xfs: Fix possible memory corruption in xfs_readlink
Fixes a possible memory corruption when the link is larger than
MAXPATHLEN and XFS_DEBUG is not enabled. This also remove the
S_ISLNK assert, since the inode mode is checked previously in
xfs_readlink_by_handle() and via VFS.
Updated to address concerns raised by Ben Hutchings about the loose
attention paid to 32- vs 64-bit values, and the lack of handling a
potentially negative pathlen value:
- Changed type of "pathlen" to be xfs_fsize_t, to match that of
ip->i_d.di_size
- Added checking for a negative pathlen to the too-long pathlen
test, and generalized the message that gets reported in that case
to reflect the change
As a result, if a negative pathlen were encountered, this function
would return EFSCORRUPTED (and would fail an assertion for a debug
build)--just as would a too-long pathlen.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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