From e825196d48d2b89a6ec3a8eff280098d2a78207e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:28:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen In all callchains leading to prepend_name(), the value left in *buflen is eventually discarded unused if prepend_name() has returned a negative. So we are free to do what prepend() does, and subtract from *buflen *before* checking for underflow (which turns into checking the sign of subtraction result, of course). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/dcache.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 265e0ce9769c..ca02c13a84aa 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2833,9 +2833,9 @@ static int prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, struct qstr *name) u32 dlen = ACCESS_ONCE(name->len); char *p; - if (*buflen < dlen + 1) - return -ENAMETOOLONG; *buflen -= dlen + 1; + if (*buflen < 0) + return -ENAMETOOLONG; p = *buffer -= dlen + 1; *p++ = '/'; while (dlen--) {