From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html