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

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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:19:20 +0000
"Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2008/12/12 Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > 2008/12/12 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Really?  The ext2 on-disk format requires that the fast symlink be
> >> null-terminated on disk?  Even though the length is already in i_size?
> >>
> >> It seems that's true.  How un-ext2-like.
> >>
> >> ext2 and ext4 need the same fix, yes?
> >
> > Yes. I've sent them out already, but thanks to a monumental cock-up
> > with the CCs they may not have made it to the list. I'll check and
> > resend to real addresses if necessary.
> 
> Seems they did make it:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122903437006575&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122903451306859&w=2
> 

OK, thanks, it seems I was sneakily not cc'ed ;)

As Al points out, the code which you implemented is still vulnerable to
on-disk corruption: bad values of i_size will cause the kernel to write
a zero byte to any address within the entire CPU address range.

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