Re: [PATCH 0/8, v3] ensure symlinks are NUL-terminated

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On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:51 +0000, Duane Griffin wrote:
> These patches fix potential bugs associated with link target handling by
> NUL-terminating names read from disk.
> 
> This is version 3 of these patches. It fixes the bug, pointed out by Al Viro
> and Evgeniy Dushistov, that i_size was not being validated. In order to
> facilitate this it introduces a helper function for terminating the link name,
> as suggested by Al.

Duane,
I see you left out jfs, so I'm assuming you're letting me handle that
one.  I've push my patch upstream, so it should show up in the -next
tree.

Shaggy

> diffstat:
>  fs/ext2/inode.c          |    7 +++++--
>  fs/ext3/inode.c          |    7 +++++--
>  fs/ext4/inode.c          |    7 +++++--
>  fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c |    4 +++-
>  fs/namei.c               |    7 +++++--
>  fs/sysv/inode.c          |    6 +++++-
>  fs/ufs/inode.c           |    8 ++++++--
>  include/linux/namei.h    |    5 +++++
>  8 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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