Re: [PATCH v2] fs: make d_path-like functions all have unsigned size

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 03:30:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:14:37PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:56:53PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > And my mistake from earlier, size_t is the same as unsigned int, not
> > > unsigned long.
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > include/linux/types.h:typedef __kernel_size_t           size_t;
> > 
> > include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h:
> > 
> > #ifndef __kernel_size_t
> > #if __BITS_PER_LONG != 64
> > typedef unsigned int    __kernel_size_t;
> > #else
> > typedef __kernel_ulong_t __kernel_size_t;
> > #endif
> > #endif
> > 
> > size_t is an unsigned long on 64-bit, unless otherwise defined by the
> > arch.
> 
> ugh, ok, so there really is a problem, as we have a size_t value being
> passed in as an int, and then it could be treated as a negative value
> for some fun pointer math to copy buffers around.
> 
> How is this not causing problems now already?  Are we just getting
> lucky?

include/uapi/linux/limits.h:#define PATH_MAX        4096        /* # chars in a path name including nul */

Clearly some places aren't checking that, but _in principle_, you
aren't supposed to be able to create a pathname longer than that.