Re: [PATCH] xfs_repair: properly detect reserved attribute names

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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:29:42PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This function in xfs_repair tries to make sure that if an attr
> name reserved for acls exists in the root namespace, then its
> value is a valid acl.
> 
> However, because it only compares up to the length of the
> reserved name, superstrings may match and cause false positive
> xfs_repair errors.
> 
> Ensure that both the length and the content match before
> flagging it as an error.
> 
> Spotted-by: Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

So it looks like master doesn't have the sizeof(unsigned char *)
problem and the 4.1 update branch does, so we want to make sure that
kernel fix makes it into the latter...

> 
> diff --git a/repair/attr_repair.c b/repair/attr_repair.c
> index 27442c4..89a5bbf 100644
> --- a/repair/attr_repair.c
> +++ b/repair/attr_repair.c
> @@ -747,9 +747,10 @@ valuecheck(
>  	void *valuep;
>  	int clearit = 0;
>  
> -	if ((strncmp(namevalue, SGI_ACL_FILE, SGI_ACL_FILE_SIZE) == 0) ||
> -			(strncmp(namevalue, SGI_ACL_DEFAULT,
> -				SGI_ACL_DEFAULT_SIZE) == 0)) {
> +	if ((namelen == SGI_ACL_FILE_SIZE &&
> +	     strncmp(namevalue, SGI_ACL_FILE, SGI_ACL_FILE_SIZE) == 0) ||
> +	    (namelen == SGI_ACL_DEFAULT_SIZE &&
> +	     strncmp(namevalue, SGI_ACL_DEFAULT, SGI_ACL_DEFAULT_SIZE) == 0)) {
>  		if (value == NULL) {
>  			valuep = malloc(valuelen);
>  			if (!valuep)
> 
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