Patch "ovl: use a minimal buffer in ovl_copy_xattr" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ovl: use a minimal buffer in ovl_copy_xattr

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ovl-use-a-minimal-buffer-in-ovl_copy_xattr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e4ad29fa0d224d05e08b2858e65f112fd8edd4fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vito Caputo <vito.caputo@coreos.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 07:19:46 -0500
Subject: ovl: use a minimal buffer in ovl_copy_xattr

From: Vito Caputo <vito.caputo@coreos.com>

commit e4ad29fa0d224d05e08b2858e65f112fd8edd4fe upstream.

Rather than always allocating the high-order XATTR_SIZE_MAX buffer
which is costly and prone to failure, only allocate what is needed and
realloc if necessary.

Fixes https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/489

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
 
 int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, struct dentry *new)
 {
-	ssize_t list_size, size;
-	char *buf, *name, *value;
-	int error;
+	ssize_t list_size, size, value_size = 0;
+	char *buf, *name, *value = NULL;
+	int uninitialized_var(error);
 
 	if (!old->d_inode->i_op->getxattr ||
 	    !new->d_inode->i_op->getxattr)
@@ -41,29 +41,40 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, s
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	error = -ENOMEM;
-	value = kmalloc(XATTR_SIZE_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!value)
-		goto out;
-
 	list_size = vfs_listxattr(old, buf, list_size);
 	if (list_size <= 0) {
 		error = list_size;
-		goto out_free_value;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	for (name = buf; name < (buf + list_size); name += strlen(name) + 1) {
-		size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, XATTR_SIZE_MAX);
+retry:
+		size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, value_size);
+		if (size == -ERANGE)
+			size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, NULL, 0);
+
 		if (size < 0) {
 			error = size;
-			goto out_free_value;
+			break;
 		}
+
+		if (size > value_size) {
+			void *new;
+
+			new = krealloc(value, size, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!new) {
+				error = -ENOMEM;
+				break;
+			}
+			value = new;
+			value_size = size;
+			goto retry;
+		}
+
 		error = vfs_setxattr(new, name, value, size, 0);
 		if (error)
-			goto out_free_value;
+			break;
 	}
-
-out_free_value:
 	kfree(value);
 out:
 	kfree(buf);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vito.caputo@coreos.com are

queue-4.4/ovl-use-a-minimal-buffer-in-ovl_copy_xattr.patch