Re: [PATCH 4.4 0/2] Backport readdir sanity checking patches

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2019-12-24 at 01:06 +0530, Siddharth Chandrasekaran wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patchset is a backport of upstream commits that makes getdents() and
> getdents64() do sanity checking on the pathname that it gives to user
> space.

These seem to be needed for 3.16, as well, so I've added them to my
queue.

Ben.

> Sid
> 
> Linus Torvalds (2):
>   Make filldir[64]() verify the directory entry filename is valid
>   filldir[64]: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() for bad directory entries
> 
>  fs/readdir.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
> 
-- 
Ben Hutchings
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