2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Suresh Jayaraman Commit 7b0c8fcff47a885743125dd843db64af41af5a61 refreshed and use a #define from commit f58841666bc22e827ca0dcef7b71c7bc2758ce82. cifs: Increase size of tmp_buf in cifs_readdir to avoid potential overflows Increase size of tmp_buf to possible maximum to avoid potential overflows. Also moved UNICODE_NAME_MAX definition so that it can be used elsewhere. Pointed-out-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman Acked-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h | 7 +++++++ fs/cifs/readdir.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ int cifs_strtoUCS(__le16 *, const char * #endif /* + * To be safe - for UCS to UTF-8 with strings loaded with the rare long + * characters alloc more to account for such multibyte target UTF-8 + * characters. + */ +#define UNICODE_NAME_MAX ((4 * NAME_MAX) + 2) + +/* * UniStrcat: Concatenate the second string to the first * * Returns: --- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c +++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ int cifs_readdir(struct file *file, void with the rare long characters alloc more to account for such multibyte target UTF-8 characters. cifs_unicode.c, which actually does the conversion, has the same limit */ - tmp_buf = kmalloc((2 * NAME_MAX) + 4, GFP_KERNEL); + tmp_buf = kmalloc(UNICODE_NAME_MAX, GFP_KERNEL); for (i = 0; (i < num_to_fill) && (rc == 0); i++) { if (current_entry == NULL) { /* evaluate whether this case is an error */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/