[PATCH] fs: ext4: fix symlink read function

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Jul 7 00:18:39 PDT 2016


On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 10:58:44PM +0300, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> From: Ronald Zachariah <rozachar at cisco.com>
> 
> From U-Boot commit:
> 
> | commit 37f23885e4905ff500a8524328aa3084ac11cdb4
> | Author: Ronald Zachariah <rozachar at cisco.com>
> | Date:   Thu Apr 28 07:08:34 2016 +0200
> |
> |     fs: ext4: fix symlink read function
> |
> |     The function ext4fs_read_symlink was unable to handle a symlink
> |     which had target name of exactly 60 characters.
> |
> |     Signed-off-by: Ronald Zachariah <rozachar at cisco.com>
> |     Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> |     Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> |     Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/ext4_common.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> index 1ecbb8d..6c4083e 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
> @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ char *ext4fs_read_symlink(struct ext2fs_node *node)
>  	if (!symlink)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	if (__le32_to_cpu(diro->inode.size) <= 60) {
> +	if (__le32_to_cpu(diro->inode.size) < sizeof(diro->inode.b.symlink)) {
>  		strncpy(symlink, diro->inode.b.symlink,
>  			 __le32_to_cpu(diro->inode.size));
>  	} else {
> -- 
> 2.8.1
> 
> 

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