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Linus Torvalds 2c6b7bcd74 readdir: be more conservative with directory entry names
Commit 8a23eb804c ("Make filldir[64]() verify the directory entry
filename is valid") added some minimal validity checks on the directory
entries passed to filldir[64]().  But they really were pretty minimal.

This fleshes out at least the name length check: we used to disallow
zero-length names, but really, negative lengths or oevr-long names
aren't ok either.  Both could happen if there is some filesystem
corruption going on.

Now, most filesystems tend to use just an "unsigned char" or similar for
the length of a directory entry name, so even with a corrupt filesystem
you should never see anything odd like that.  But since we then use the
name length to create the directory entry record length, let's make sure
it actually is half-way sensible.

Note how POSIX states that the size of a path component is limited by
NAME_MAX, but we actually use PATH_MAX for the check here.  That's
because while NAME_MAX is generally the correct maximum name length
(it's 255, for the same old "name length is usually just a byte on
disk"), there's nothing in the VFS layer that really cares.

So the real limitation at a VFS layer is the total pathname length you
can pass as a filename: PATH_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-01-23 10:05:05 -08:00
arch RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc7 2020-01-19 12:10:28 -08:00
block block: fix an integer overflow in logical block size 2020-01-15 21:43:09 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto tpmdd fixes for Linux v5.5-rc3 2019-12-18 17:17:36 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-19 12:03:53 -08:00
drivers Changes for Linus for -rc8. 2020-01-22 12:56:19 -08:00
fs readdir: be more conservative with directory entry names 2020-01-23 10:05:05 -08:00
include io_uring-5.5-2020-01-22 2020-01-22 08:30:09 -08:00
init mm, debug_pagealloc: don't rely on static keys too early 2020-01-13 18:19:02 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
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lib lib/vdso: Make __cvdso_clock_getres() static 2020-01-10 19:29:01 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
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samples samples/seccomp: Zero out members based on seccomp_notif_sizes 2020-01-02 13:03:39 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.5 (2nd) 2020-01-03 11:21:25 -08:00
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usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt PPC KVM fix for 5.5 2019-12-22 13:18:15 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-19 12:03:53 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.5-rc7 2020-01-19 16:02:49 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.