linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] readdir mess

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20080812182240.GS28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:22:40 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] readdir mess

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:10:57PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> There's one more thing in that mess: a bunch of vfs_readdir() callers
> end up playing very sick games to make sure they get the entire
> directory.  The trick is to find whether the damn thing has reached
> the end; as it is, there are instances of ->readdir() that do _not_
> (e.g. call filldir only once and let the caller repeat).
> 
> I'm certainly not too fond of buf->error.  If you see a better interface
> I'd love to hear about it, but I don't think that "just return anything
> non-zero we'd got from callback" is going to be good.  And if we go for
> flagday changes in ->readdir(), we'd better get it right...

PS: we might get away with both, if we used _positive_ values as well.
E.g. have getdents() filldir return 1 if we are out of buffer *and*
have ->previous != NULL (and -EINVAL if we are out of buffer on the
first call)...  And have some other positive constant for "->readdir()
didn't feel like going all the way to the end of directory".
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/