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Message-Id: <1229447007.3751.1.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:03:27 -0600
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Duane Griffin <duaneg@...da.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8, v3] ensure symlinks are NUL-terminated
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:51 +0000, Duane Griffin wrote:
> These patches fix potential bugs associated with link target handling by
> NUL-terminating names read from disk.
>
> This is version 3 of these patches. It fixes the bug, pointed out by Al Viro
> and Evgeniy Dushistov, that i_size was not being validated. In order to
> facilitate this it introduces a helper function for terminating the link name,
> as suggested by Al.
Duane,
I see you left out jfs, so I'm assuming you're letting me handle that
one. I've push my patch upstream, so it should show up in the -next
tree.
Shaggy
> diffstat:
> fs/ext2/inode.c | 7 +++++--
> fs/ext3/inode.c | 7 +++++--
> fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +++++--
> fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c | 4 +++-
> fs/namei.c | 7 +++++--
> fs/sysv/inode.c | 6 +++++-
> fs/ufs/inode.c | 8 ++++++--
> include/linux/namei.h | 5 +++++
> 8 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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