[PATCH, v5] befs: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated

From: Duane Griffin
Date: Fri Dec 19 2008 - 15:51:07 EST


Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Unchanged from original version.

fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
index b6dfee3..d06cb02 100644
--- a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
+++ b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
@@ -378,7 +378,8 @@ static struct inode *befs_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
inode->i_size = 0;
inode->i_blocks = befs_sb->block_size / VFS_BLOCK_SIZE;
strncpy(befs_ino->i_data.symlink, raw_inode->data.symlink,
- BEFS_SYMLINK_LEN);
+ BEFS_SYMLINK_LEN - 1);
+ befs_ino->i_data.symlink[BEFS_SYMLINK_LEN - 1] = '\0';
} else {
int num_blks;

@@ -477,6 +478,8 @@ befs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
kfree(link);
befs_error(sb, "Failed to read entire long symlink");
link = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+ } else {
+ link[len - 1] = '\0';
}
} else {
link = befs_ino->i_data.symlink;
--
1.6.0.4

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