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Message-ID: <20150122155316.GH18752@madcap2.tricolour.ca>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:53:16 -0500
From:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	sd@...asysnail.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux@...ck-us.net, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] fs: rework getname_kernel to handle up to
 PATH_MAX sized filenames

On 15/01/21, Paul Moore wrote:
> In preparation for expanded use in the kernel, make getname_kernel()
> more useful by allowing it to handle any legal filename length.
> 
> Thanks to Guenter Roeck for his suggestion to substitute memcpy() for
> strlcpy().
> 
> CC: linux@...ck-us.net
> CC: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
> CC: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>

Noted memcpy() difference (I assume to avoid races).

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>

> ---
>  fs/namei.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 9eb787e..63eaaf6 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -211,32 +211,38 @@ getname(const char __user * filename)
>  	return getname_flags(filename, 0, NULL);
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * The "getname_kernel()" interface doesn't do pathnames longer
> - * than EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX. Deal with it - you're a kernel user.
> - */
>  struct filename *
>  getname_kernel(const char * filename)
>  {
>  	struct filename *result;
> -	char *kname;
> -	int len;
> -
> -	len = strlen(filename);
> -	if (len >= EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX)
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
> +	int len = strlen(filename) + 1;
>  
>  	result = __getname();
>  	if (unlikely(!result))
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
> -	kname = (char *)result + sizeof(*result);
> -	result->name = kname;
> +	if (len <= EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX) {
> +		result->name = (char *)(result) + sizeof(*result);
> +		result->separate = false;
> +	} else if (len <= PATH_MAX) {
> +		struct filename *tmp;
> +
> +		tmp = kmalloc(sizeof(*tmp), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (unlikely(!tmp)) {
> +			__putname(result);
> +			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +		}
> +		tmp->name = (char *)result;
> +		tmp->separate = true;
> +		result = tmp;
> +	} else {
> +		__putname(result);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
> +	}
> +	memcpy((char *)result->name, filename, len);
>  	result->uptr = NULL;
>  	result->aname = NULL;
> -	result->separate = false;
>  
> -	strlcpy(kname, filename, EMBEDDED_NAME_MAX);
>  	return result;
>  }
>  
> 

- RGB

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