The patch titled
ext3: ensure link targets are NULL-terminated
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ext3-ensure-link-targets-are-null-terminated.patch
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Subject: ext3: ensure link targets are NULL-terminated
From: "Duane Griffin" <[email protected]>
Ensure link targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted on-disk.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext3/inode.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-ensure-link-targets-are-null-terminated fs/ext3/inode.c
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-ensure-link-targets-are-null-terminated
+++ a/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -2817,9 +2817,10 @@ struct inode *ext3_iget(struct super_blo
inode->i_op = &ext3_dir_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &ext3_dir_operations;
} else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
- if (ext3_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode))
+ if (ext3_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode)) {
inode->i_op = &ext3_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
- else {
+ ((char *) ei->i_data)[inode->i_size] = '\0';
+ } else {
inode->i_op = &ext3_symlink_inode_operations;
ext3_set_aops(inode);
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
ext4-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch
ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags.patch
ext2-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch
ext2-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags.patch
ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch
ext3-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags.patch
ext3-ensure-link-targets-are-null-terminated.patch