[RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 20/21] fs: dcache: manually unpoison dname after allocation to shut up kasan's reports
Andrey Ryabinin
a.ryabinin at samsung.com
Wed Jul 9 04:30:14 PDT 2014
We need to manually unpoison rounded up allocation size for dname
to avoid kasan's reports in __d_lookup_rcu.
__d_lookup_rcu may validly read a little beyound allocated size.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin at samsung.com>
---
fs/dcache.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index b7e8b20..dff64f2 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/prefetch.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/list_lru.h>
+#include <linux/kasan.h>
#include "internal.h"
#include "mount.h"
@@ -1412,6 +1413,8 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name)
kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry);
return NULL;
}
+ unpoison_shadow(dname,
+ roundup(name->len + 1, sizeof(unsigned long)));
} else {
dname = dentry->d_iname;
}
--
1.8.5.5
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