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fs/9p: avoid debug OOPS when reading a long symlink
authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:20:49 +0000 (09:20 +0200)
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:54:53 +0000 (13:54 -0500)
Reading a symlink longer than the given buffer, a p9_debug use would
try to print the link name (not NUL-terminated) using a %s format.
Use %.*s instead, and replace the strncpy+strnlen with functionally
equivalent strlen+memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
fs/9p/vfs_inode.c

index cbf9dbb1b2a270f4ebd911f7b1aca3d0107969e3..890bed538f9b6417aebbb1e5a2780c0f209ebd17 100644 (file)
@@ -1276,12 +1276,12 @@ static int v9fs_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
        }
 
        /* copy extension buffer into buffer */
-       strncpy(buffer, st->extension, buflen);
+       retval = min(strlen(st->extension)+1, (size_t)buflen);
+       memcpy(buffer, st->extension, retval);
 
-       p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_VFS, "%s -> %s (%s)\n",
-                dentry->d_name.name, st->extension, buffer);
+       p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_VFS, "%s -> %s (%.*s)\n",
+                dentry->d_name.name, st->extension, buflen, buffer);
 
-       retval = strnlen(buffer, buflen);
 done:
        p9stat_free(st);
        kfree(st);