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Subject[PATCH] ext2: ensure link targets are NULL-terminated
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Ensure link targets are NULL-terminated, even if corrupted on-disk.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
---
fs/ext2/symlink.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext2/symlink.c b/fs/ext2/symlink.c
index 4e2426e..9b164ba 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/symlink.c
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
static void *ext2_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
{
struct ext2_inode_info *ei = EXT2_I(dentry->d_inode);
- nd_set_link(nd, (char *)ei->i_data);
+ char *link = (char *) ei->i_data;
+ link[sizeof(ei->i_data) - 1] = '\0';
+ nd_set_link(nd, link);
return NULL;
}

--
1.6.0.4


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