From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
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commit e825196d48d2b89a6ec3a8eff280098d2a78207e upstream.
In all callchains leading to prepend_name(), the value left in *buflen
is eventually discarded unused if prepend_name() has returned a negative.
So we are free to do what prepend() does, and subtract from *buflen
*before* checking for underflow (which turns into checking the sign
of subtraction result, of course).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 4021e0172602..30b38e23caa7 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2846,9 +2846,9 @@ static int prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, struct qstr *name)
u32 dlen = ACCESS_ONCE(name->len);
char *p;
- if (*buflen < dlen + 1)
- return -ENAMETOOLONG;
*buflen -= dlen + 1;
+ if (*buflen < 0)
+ return -ENAMETOOLONG;
p = *buffer -= dlen + 1;
*p++ = '/';
while (dlen--) {
--
1.9.1
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