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Subject[PATCH, v5] vfs: ensure page symlinks are NUL-terminated
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On-disk data corruption could cause a page link to have its i_size set
to PAGE_SIZE (or a multiple thereof) and its contents all non-NUL.
NUL-terminate the link name to ensure this doesn't cause further
problems for the kernel.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
---

Unchanged from v4.

fs/namei.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index af3783f..2416922 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2750,13 +2750,16 @@ int vfs_follow_link(struct nameidata *nd, const char *link)
/* get the link contents into pagecache */
static char *page_getlink(struct dentry * dentry, struct page **ppage)
{
- struct page * page;
+ char *kaddr;
+ struct page *page;
struct address_space *mapping = dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
page = read_mapping_page(mapping, 0, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(page))
return (char*)page;
*ppage = page;
- return kmap(page);
+ kaddr = kmap(page);
+ nd_terminate_link(kaddr, dentry->d_inode->i_size, PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+ return kaddr;
}

int page_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int buflen)
--
1.6.0.4


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