Re: [PATCH] generic/736: fix a buffer overflow in readdir-while-renames.c

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On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 11:28:26AM +0000, fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> The test is using a 32 characters buffer to print the full path for each
> file name, which in some setups it's not enough because $TEST_DIR can
> point to a path name longer than that, or even smaller but then the buffer
> is still not large enough after appending a file name. When that's the
> case it results in a core dump like this:
> 
>   generic/736       QA output created by 736
>   *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
>   /opt/xfstests/tests/generic/736: line 32:  9217 Aborted                 (core dumped) $here/src/readdir-while-renames $target_dir
>   Silence is golden
>   - output mismatch (see /opt/xfstests/results//generic/736.out.bad)
>       --- tests/generic/736.out	2024-01-14 12:01:35.000000000 -0500
>       +++ /opt/xfstests/results//generic/736.out.bad	2024-01-23 18:58:37.990000000 -0500
>       @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
>        QA output created by 736
>       +*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
>       +/opt/xfstests/tests/generic/736: line 32:  9217 Aborted                 (core dumped) $here/src/readdir-while-renames $target_dir
>        Silence is golden
>       ...
>       (Run diff -u /opt/xfstests/tests/generic/736.out /opt/xfstests/results//generic/736.out.bad  to see the entire diff)
>   Ran: generic/736
>   Failures: generic/736
>   Failed 1 of 1 tests
> 
> We don't actually need to print the full path into the buffer, because we
> have previously set the current directory (chdir) to the path pointed by
> "dir_path". So fix this by printing only the relative path name which
> uses at most 5 characters (NUM_FILES is 5000 plus the nul terminator).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>




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