linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 2/8] fs: Add standard casefolding support

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 for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

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

Message-ID: <CA+PiJmTYbEA-hgrKwtp0jZXqsfYrzgogOZ0Pt=gTCtqhBfnqFA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:11:13 -0800
From:   Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/8] fs: Add standard casefolding support

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 6:12 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 05:35:46PM -0800, Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
>
>
> Again, is that safe in case when the contents of the string str points to
> keeps changing under you?

I'm not sure what you mean. I thought it was safe to use the str and
len passed into d_compare. Even if it gets changed under RCU
conditions I thought there was some code to ensure that the name/len
pair passed in is consistent, and any other inconsistencies would get
caught by d_seq later. Are there unsafe code paths that can follow?