linux-kernel - [PATCH, v5] freevxfs: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated

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Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:47:17 +0000
From:	"Duane Griffin" <duaneg@...da.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Duane Griffin <duaneg@...da.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH, v5] freevxfs: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated

Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@...da.com>
---

Unchanged from v4.

 fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c
index 9f3f2ce..03a6ea5 100644
--- a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c
@@ -325,8 +325,10 @@ vxfs_iget(struct super_block *sbp, ino_t ino)
 		if (!VXFS_ISIMMED(vip)) {
 			ip->i_op = &page_symlink_inode_operations;
 			ip->i_mapping->a_ops = &vxfs_aops;
-		} else
+		} else {
 			ip->i_op = &vxfs_immed_symlink_iops;
+			vip->vii_immed.vi_immed[ip->i_size] = '\0';
+		}
 	} else
 		init_special_inode(ip, ip->i_mode, old_decode_dev(vip->vii_rdev));
 
-- 
1.6.0.4

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