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authorMateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>2025-02-04 22:32:07 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-02-07 10:29:59 +0100
commit37d11cfc63604b3886308e2111d845d148ced8bc (patch)
tree08536943bc5322ee481a5e6f2fd4b5a30ecfbb76
parent091ee63e36e8289f9067f659a48d497911e49d6f (diff)
vfs: sanity check the length passed to inode_set_cached_link()
This costs a strlen() call when instatianating a symlink. Preferably it would be hidden behind VFS_WARN_ON (or compatible), but there is no such facility at the moment. With the facility in place the call can be patched out in production kernels. In the meantime, since the cost is being paid unconditionally, use the result to a fixup the bad caller. This is not expected to persist in the long run (tm). Sample splat: bad length passed for symlink [/tmp/syz-imagegen43743633/file0/file0] (got 131109, expected 37) [rest of WARN blurp goes here] Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204213207.337980-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 7620547432a8..2c3b2f8a621f 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -790,6 +790,19 @@ struct inode {
static inline void inode_set_cached_link(struct inode *inode, char *link, int linklen)
{
+ int testlen;
+
+ /*
+ * TODO: patch it into a debug-only check if relevant macros show up.
+ * In the meantime, since we are suffering strlen even on production kernels
+ * to find the right length, do a fixup if the wrong value got passed.
+ */
+ testlen = strlen(link);
+ if (testlen != linklen) {
+ WARN_ONCE(1, "bad length passed for symlink [%s] (got %d, expected %d)",
+ link, linklen, testlen);
+ linklen = testlen;
+ }
inode->i_link = link;
inode->i_linklen = linklen;
inode->i_opflags |= IOP_CACHED_LINK;