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Message-ID: <20200128221112.GA30200@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:11:12 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Subject: [willy@...radead.org: Re: [willy@...radead.org: Re: [PATCH v4] fs:
 introduce is_dot_or_dotdot helper for cleanup]]


I've tried to get Ted's opinion on this a few times with radio silence.
Or email is broken.  Anyone else care to offer an opinion?

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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:11:43 -0800
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [willy@...radead.org: Re: [PATCH v4] fs: introduce
	is_dot_or_dotdot helper for cleanup]


ping?

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 06:13:03AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Didn't see a response from you on this.  Can you confirm the three
> cases in ext4 mentioned below should be converted to return -EUNCLEAN?
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> -----
> 
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:13:02 -0800
> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
> Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>, Alexander Viro
> 	<viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Jaegeuk
> 	Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>, Tyler Hicks
> 	<tyhicks@...onical.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
> 	ecryptfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
> 	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] fs: introduce is_dot_or_dotdot helper for cleanup
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15)
> 
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:19:13AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > +static inline bool is_dot_or_dotdot(const unsigned char *name, size_t len)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (unlikely(name[0] == '.')) {
> > > +		if (len < 2 || (len == 2 && name[1] == '.'))
> > > +			return true;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	return false;
> > > +}
> > 
> > This doesn't handle the len=0 case.  Did you check that none of the users pass
> > in zero-length names?  It looks like fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr() can, if the
> > directory entry on-disk has a zero-length name.  Currently it will return
> > -EUCLEAN in that case, but with this patch it may think it's the name ".".
> 
> Trying to wrench this back on track ...
> 
> fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr is called by:
> 
> fscrypt_get_symlink():
>        if (cstr.len == 0)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-EUCLEAN);
> ext4_readdir():
> 	Does not currently check de->name_len.  I believe this check should
> 	be added to __ext4_check_dir_entry() because a zero-length directory
> 	entry can affect both encrypted and non-encrypted directory entries.
> dx_show_leaf():
> 	Same as ext4_readdir().  Should probably call ext4_check_dir_entry()?
> htree_dirblock_to_tree():
> 	Would be covered by a fix to ext4_check_dir_entry().
> f2fs_fill_dentries():
> 	if (de->name_len == 0) {
> 		...
> ubifs_readdir():
> 	Does not currently check de->name_len.  Also affects non-encrypted
> 	directory entries.
> 
> So of the six callers, two of them already check the dirent length for
> being zero, and four of them ought to anyway, but don't.  I think they
> should be fixed, but clearly we don't historically check for this kind
> of data corruption (strangely), so I don't think that's a reason to hold
> up this patch until the individual filesystems are fixed.
> 
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