Re: [PATCH, v2] ufs: ensure link targets are NUL-terminated

From: Evgeniy Dushistov
Date: Sun Dec 14 2008 - 18:02:05 EST


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:36:08PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote:
> Ensure link targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted on-disk.
>
> Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> V2: terminate when the link is read instead of every time it is
> followed, as suggested by Dave Kleikamp.
>
> diff --git a/fs/ufs/inode.c b/fs/ufs/inode.c
> index 39f8778..a22f64d 100644
> --- a/fs/ufs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ufs/inode.c
> @@ -606,9 +606,11 @@ static void ufs_set_inode_ops(struct inode *inode)
> inode->i_fop = &ufs_dir_operations;
> inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ufs_aops;
> } else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
> - if (!inode->i_blocks)
> + if (!inode->i_blocks) {
> + char *link = UFS_I(inode)->i_u1.i_symlink;
> inode->i_op = &ufs_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
> - else {
> + link[inode->i_size] = '\0';
> + } else {
> inode->i_op = &page_symlink_inode_operations;
> inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ufs_aops;
> }

if we talk about corrupted file system, may be also ensure
that inode->i_size <= sizeof(i_u1)-1 before write '\0' to it.

--
/Evgeniy

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