Re: [PATCH 2/2] cifs: Increase size of tmp_buf in cifs_readdir to avoid potential overflows

Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:54:36 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Increase size of tmp_buf to possible maximum to avoid potential
> overflows.
> 
> 
> Pointed-out-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/readdir.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/readdir.c b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
> index 1a8be62..ebd0da7 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
> @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ int cifs_readdir(struct file *file, void *direntry, filldir_t filldir)
>  		with the rare long characters alloc more to account for
>  		such multibyte target UTF-8 characters. cifs_unicode.c,
>  		which actually does the conversion, has the same limit */
> -		tmp_buf = kmalloc((2 * NAME_MAX) + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		tmp_buf = kmalloc((4 * NAME_MAX) + 2, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		for (i = 0; (i < num_to_fill) && (rc == 0); i++) {
>  			if (current_entry == NULL) {
>  				/* evaluate whether this case is an error */

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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