Re: [PATCH 2/2 linux-next] FS/HFSPLUS: move xattr_name allocation in hfsplus_setxattr()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Mar 02 2015 - 17:25:37 EST


On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:38:26 +0100 Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> security/trusted/user/osx setxattr did the same
> xattr_name initialization. Move that operation in hfsplus_setxattr().
>
> Tested with security/trusted/user getfattr/setfattr
>
> --- a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c
> @@ -424,6 +424,28 @@ static int copy_name(char *buffer, const char *xattr_name, int name_len)
> return len;
> }
>
> +int hfsplus_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
> + const void *value, size_t size, int flags,
> + const char *prefix, size_t prefixlen)
> +{
> + char *xattr_name;
> + int res;
> +
> + if (!strcmp(name, ""))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + xattr_name = kmalloc(NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE * HFSPLUS_ATTR_MAX_STRLEN + 1,
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!xattr_name)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + strcpy(xattr_name, prefix);
> + strcpy(xattr_name + prefixlen, name);

Can we use kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%s", prefix, name) and zap `prefixlen'?

> + res = __hfsplus_setxattr(dentry->d_inode, xattr_name, value, size,
> + flags);
> + kfree(xattr_name);
> + return res;
> +}

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