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-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h7
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/readdir.c2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h
index 14eb9a2395d3..604ce8a526a4 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ int cifs_strtoUCS(__le16 *, const char *, int, const struct nls_table *);
#endif
/*
+ * To be safe - for UCS to UTF-8 with strings loaded with the rare long
+ * characters alloc more to account for such multibyte target UTF-8
+ * characters.
+ */
+#define UNICODE_NAME_MAX ((4 * NAME_MAX) + 2)
+
+/*
* UniStrcat: Concatenate the second string to the first
*
* Returns:
diff --git a/fs/cifs/readdir.c b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
index c2c01ff4c32c..0bdd5a6e5bb8 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ 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(UNICODE_NAME_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
for (i = 0; (i < num_to_fill) && (rc == 0); i++) {
if (current_entry == NULL) {
/* evaluate whether this case is an error */