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

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 03:17:09PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:07:47PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > umm ... what if someone passes in -ENOMEM as buflen?  Not saying we
> > have such a path right now, but I could imagine it happening.
> > 
> > 	if (unlikely(buflen < 0))
> > 		return ERR_PTR(buflen);
> > 	if (unlikely(buflen > 0x8000)) {
> > 		buf += buflen - 0x8000;
> > 		buflen = 0x8000;
> > 	}
> 
> Not really.  You don't want ERR_PTR() of random negative numbers to start
> flying around...

yeah.  the problem is that we're trying to infer what's actually going
on when the user has (potentially) passed us complete crap.  so do
we assume that 'buffer' is good if 'buflen' is >32KB?  plausible it
might be.  is it still plausibly good if buflen is >4MB?  i would say
'no'.

	if (unlikely((unsigned)buflen > 4096U * 1024))
		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
	if (unlikely(buflen > 0x8000)) {
		buf += buflen - 0x8000;
		buflen = 0x8000;
	}