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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2009-08-27 03:20:04 -0700
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-08-27 08:02:10 -0400
commit0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd (patch)
tree108756b2460edff75bb7bc6c778e1a2c0ff50167 /fs/notify/inotify
parentdead537dd8a1c9495322c1d6f7c780697f474af0 (diff)
inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL.
Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0' byte to user space after the filename. Since the rewrite that terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of event_size. Ouch! So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the strange nul_inotify_event. I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to do. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index ce1f5823e2c..0e781bc88d1 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -47,9 +47,6 @@
static struct vfsmount *inotify_mnt __read_mostly;
-/* this just sits here and wastes global memory. used to just pad userspace messages with zeros */
-static struct inotify_event nul_inotify_event;
-
/* these are configurable via /proc/sys/fs/inotify/ */
static int inotify_max_user_instances __read_mostly;
static int inotify_max_queued_events __read_mostly;
@@ -199,8 +196,10 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group,
inotify_free_event_priv(fsn_priv);
}
- /* round up event->name_len so it is a multiple of event_size */
- name_len = roundup(event->name_len, event_size);
+ /* round up event->name_len so it is a multiple of event_size
+ * plus an extra byte for the terminating '\0'.
+ */
+ name_len = roundup(event->name_len + 1, event_size);
inotify_event.len = name_len;
inotify_event.mask = inotify_mask_to_arg(event->mask);
@@ -224,8 +223,8 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group,
return -EFAULT;
buf += event->name_len;
- /* fill userspace with 0's from nul_inotify_event */
- if (copy_to_user(buf, &nul_inotify_event, len_to_zero))
+ /* fill userspace with 0's */
+ if (clear_user(buf, len_to_zero))
return -EFAULT;
buf += len_to_zero;
event_size += name_len;