Re: [PATCH v2] ovl: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 12:09:47PM +0100, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> Considering that fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer() anyway allocates the byte for NUL
> termination and that decrypted names are zero padded (right?).

Only when the length of the original filename isn't already a multiple
of the padding amount, as configured by FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAGS_PAD_*.

> How about reinforcing this fix with:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/crypto/fname.c b/fs/crypto/fname.c
> index a9a4432d12ba1..97e00af49bb9f 100644
> --- a/fs/crypto/fname.c
> +++ b/fs/crypto/fname.c
> @@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ int fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr(const struct inode *inode,
>         if (fscrypt_is_dot_dotdot(&qname)) {
>                 oname->name[0] = '.';
>                 oname->name[iname->len - 1] = '.';
> +               oname->name[iname->len] = 0;
>                 oname->len = iname->len;
>                 return 0;

Do you propose to do the same for all callers of dir_emit() in all
filesystems?  It seems not NUL-terminating the name is normal.  Just
usually the name is in the pagecache rather than slab memory, which
makes KMSAN not usually notice the out-of-bounds read in overlayfs.

- Eric