This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: Guard against READDIR loop when entry names exceed MAXNAMELEN to the 6.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nfs-guard-against-readdir-loop-when-entry-names-exce.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 916a2e7e0e9ff0bd6ec4f41e8b715710f1bda029 Author: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 22 14:22:38 2023 -0400 NFS: Guard against READDIR loop when entry names exceed MAXNAMELEN [ Upstream commit f67b55b6588bcf9316a1e6e8d529100a5aa3ebe6 ] Commit 64cfca85bacd asserts the only valid return values for nfs2/3_decode_dirent should not include -ENAMETOOLONG, but for a server that sends a filename3 which exceeds MAXNAMELEN in a READDIR response the client's behavior will be to endlessly retry the operation. We could map -ENAMETOOLONG into -EBADCOOKIE, but that would produce truncated listings without any error. The client should return an error for this case to clearly assert that the server implementation must be corrected. Fixes: 64cfca85bacd ("NFS: Return valid errors from nfs2/3_decode_dirent()") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c b/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c index 05c3b4b2b3dd8..c190938142960 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ int nfs2_decode_dirent(struct xdr_stream *xdr, struct nfs_entry *entry, error = decode_filename_inline(xdr, &entry->name, &entry->len); if (unlikely(error)) - return -EAGAIN; + return error == -ENAMETOOLONG ? -ENAMETOOLONG : -EAGAIN; /* * The type (size and byte order) of nfscookie isn't defined in diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c index 3b0b650c9c5ab..60f032be805ae 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c @@ -1991,7 +1991,7 @@ int nfs3_decode_dirent(struct xdr_stream *xdr, struct nfs_entry *entry, error = decode_inline_filename3(xdr, &entry->name, &entry->len); if (unlikely(error)) - return -EAGAIN; + return error == -ENAMETOOLONG ? -ENAMETOOLONG : -EAGAIN; error = decode_cookie3(xdr, &new_cookie); if (unlikely(error))