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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	"Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@cert.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>,
	Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: fix d_path() with zero-length input buffer
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 18:42:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140205174245.GA26039@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391621647-7905-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com>

On 02/05, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> In prepend_name(), *buflen < dlen + 1 comparison is buggy
> because dlen has unsigned data type, and we can reach this location
> with *buflen == -1.

because, say, path_with_deleted() doesn't check the result of
prepend(), and prepend() updates *buflen unconditionally. I am
wondering if it should be changed too just for consistency.

> --- a/fs/dcache.c
> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -2833,7 +2833,7 @@ static int prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, struct qstr *name)
>  	u32 dlen = ACCESS_ONCE(name->len);
>  	char *p;
>
> -	if (*buflen < dlen + 1)
> +	if (*buflen < (int)dlen + 1)

perhaps it would be better to simply make dlen "int" ?

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-05 17:34 [PATCH] fs: fix d_path() with zero-length input buffer Denys Vlasenko
2014-02-05 17:42 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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