[PATCH 4.4 123/137] ovl: allow zero size xattr

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 23 2016 - 23:17:48 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 97daf8b97ad6f913a34c82515be64dc9ac08d63e upstream.

When ovl_copy_xattr() encountered a zero size xattr no more xattrs were
copied and the function returned success. This is clearly not the desired
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, s

for (name = buf; name < (buf + list_size); name += strlen(name) + 1) {
size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, XATTR_SIZE_MAX);
- if (size <= 0) {
+ if (size < 0) {
error = size;
goto out_free_value;
}