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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-06-26 12:24:42 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-06-26 12:24:42 +0200
commit2c92d787cc9fad57d05c96bd117782183768258a (patch)
tree51c0c567b8be2fd56073a8ce31f8ebd123a7d562 /fs/ext4/dir.c
parent145a773aef83181d47ebab21bb33c89233aadb1e (diff)
parent8be3a53e18e0e1a98f288f6c7f5e9da3adbe9c49 (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/entry, to resolve conflicts
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/traps.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/dir.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/dir.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index c654205f648d..1d82336b1cd4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ static int ext4_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len,
struct qstr qstr = {.name = str, .len = len };
const struct dentry *parent = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_parent);
const struct inode *inode = READ_ONCE(parent->d_inode);
+ char strbuf[DNAME_INLINE_LEN];
if (!inode || !IS_CASEFOLDED(inode) ||
!EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_encoding) {
@@ -683,6 +684,21 @@ static int ext4_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len,
return memcmp(str, name->name, len);
}
+ /*
+ * If the dentry name is stored in-line, then it may be concurrently
+ * modified by a rename. If this happens, the VFS will eventually retry
+ * the lookup, so it doesn't matter what ->d_compare() returns.
+ * However, it's unsafe to call utf8_strncasecmp() with an unstable
+ * string. Therefore, we have to copy the name into a temporary buffer.
+ */
+ if (len <= DNAME_INLINE_LEN - 1) {
+ memcpy(strbuf, str, len);
+ strbuf[len] = 0;
+ qstr.name = strbuf;
+ /* prevent compiler from optimizing out the temporary buffer */
+ barrier();
+ }
+
return ext4_ci_compare(inode, name, &qstr, false);
}