[JFFS2] Check for creation of dirents with embedded zero bytes in name.

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Sat Oct 13 06:59:01 EDT 2007


Gitweb:     http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69ca4378aa376cf2c49657d4f6951da56c27cd3a
Commit:     69ca4378aa376cf2c49657d4f6951da56c27cd3a
Parent:     a8c68f32644fc8942b25af9239967dd01be621fa
Author:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Sat Oct 13 11:33:50 2007 +0100
Committer:  David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
CommitDate: Sat Oct 13 11:33:50 2007 +0100

    [JFFS2] Check for creation of dirents with embedded zero bytes in name.
    
    I have no idea how this happened, but OLPC trac #4184 suggests that it
    did. Catch it early.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
---
 fs/jffs2/write.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/write.c b/fs/jffs2/write.c
index 664c164..2f56954 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/write.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/write.c
@@ -215,6 +215,17 @@ struct jffs2_full_dirent *jffs2_write_dirent(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jff
 		BUG();
 	   });
 
+	if (strnlen(name, namelen) != namelen) {
+		/* This should never happen, but seems to have done on at least one
+		   occasion: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4184 */
+		printk(KERN_CRIT "Error in jffs2_write_dirent() -- name contains zero bytes!\n");
+		printk(KERN_CRIT "Directory inode #%u, name at *0x%p \"%s\"->ino #%u, name_crc 0x%08x\n",
+		       je32_to_cpu(rd->pino), name, name, je32_to_cpu(rd->ino),
+		       je32_to_cpu(rd->name_crc));
+		WARN_ON(1);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+	}
+
 	vecs[0].iov_base = rd;
 	vecs[0].iov_len = sizeof(*rd);
 	vecs[1].iov_base = (unsigned char *)name;
@@ -226,7 +237,7 @@ struct jffs2_full_dirent *jffs2_write_dirent(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jff
 
 	fd->version = je32_to_cpu(rd->version);
 	fd->ino = je32_to_cpu(rd->ino);
-	fd->nhash = full_name_hash(name, strlen(name));
+	fd->nhash = full_name_hash(name, namelen);
 	fd->type = rd->type;
 	memcpy(fd->name, name, namelen);
 	fd->name[namelen]=0;



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