[PATCH] v9fs-replace-strlen-with-pathmax-getname.patch

[Latchesar Ionkov]

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@xxxxxxxxxx>

strlen errorneously called with newly allocated by __getname buffer

---
commit 0b381cf7efcd34bb6b316baf7ed5d18d402e62f0
tree c8ec5ac42ec5d1c28d2f97a1de553940f3746f2b
parent 34ad50ad5bf63c55687350d9f4e3c4dcc44304a7
author Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@xxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:28:30 -0400
committer Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@xxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:28:30 -0400

 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -1063,8 +1063,8 @@ static int v9fs_vfs_readlink(struct dent
 	int ret;
 	char *link = __getname();
 
-	if (strlen(link) < buflen)
-		buflen = strlen(link);
+	if (buflen > PATH_MAX)
+		buflen = PATH_MAX;
 
 	dprintk(DEBUG_VFS, " dentry: %s (%p)\n", dentry->d_iname, dentry);
 
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