[PATCH, v2] ext3: ensure link targets are NULL-terminated

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Ensure link targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted on-disk.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx>
---

V2: terminate when the link is read instead of every time it is
followed, as suggested by Dave Kleikamp.

diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index f8424ad..c168781 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -2817,9 +2817,10 @@ struct inode *ext3_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 		inode->i_op = &ext3_dir_inode_operations;
 		inode->i_fop = &ext3_dir_operations;
 	} else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
-		if (ext3_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode))
+		if (ext3_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode)) {
 			inode->i_op = &ext3_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
-		else {
+			((char *) ei->i_data)[inode->i_size] = '\0';
+		} else {
 			inode->i_op = &ext3_symlink_inode_operations;
 			ext3_set_aops(inode);
 		}
-- 
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