Hi Al,

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 02:13:18AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> BTW, looking at the __getname() callers...  Lustre one sure as hell looks
> bogus:
>         char *tmp = __getname();
> 
>         if (!tmp)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> 
>         len = strncpy_from_user(tmp, filename, PATH_MAX);
>         if (len == 0)
>                 ret = -ENOENT;
>         else if (len > PATH_MAX)
>                 ret = -ENAMETOOLONG;
> 
>         if (ret) {
>                 __putname(tmp);
>                 tmp =  ERR_PTR(ret);
>         }
>         return tmp;
> 
> Note that
>       * strncpy_from_user(p, u, n) can return a negative (-EFAULT)
>       * strncpy_from_user(p, u, n) cannot return a positive greater than
> n.  In case of missing NUL among the n bytes starting at u (and no faults
> accessing those) we get exactly n bytes copied and n returned.  In case
> when NUL is there, we copy everything up to and including that NUL and
> return number of non-NUL bytes copied.
> 
> IOW, these failure cases had never been tested.  Name being too long ends up
> with non-NUL-terminated array of characters returned, and the very first
> caller of ll_getname() feeds it to strlen().  Fault ends up with uninitialized
> array...
> 
> AFAICS, the damn thing should just use getname() and quit reinventing the
> wheel, badly.
> 

I'm trying to clean that part of code you mentioned, and I found I have
to export the symbols 'getname' and 'putname' as follow to replace that
__getname() caller:

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/dir.c 
b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/dir.c
index a182019..014f51a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/dir.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/dir.c
@@ -1216,29 +1216,8 @@ out:
        return rc;
 }
 
-static char *
-ll_getname(const char __user *filename)
-{
-       int ret = 0, len;
-       char *tmp = __getname();
-
-       if (!tmp)
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
-       len = strncpy_from_user(tmp, filename, PATH_MAX);
-       if (len == 0)
-               ret = -ENOENT;
-       else if (len > PATH_MAX)
-               ret = -ENAMETOOLONG;
-
-       if (ret) {
-               __putname(tmp);
-               tmp =  ERR_PTR(ret);
-       }
-       return tmp;
-}
-
-#define ll_putname(filename) __putname(filename)
+#define ll_getname(filename) getname(filename)
+#define ll_putname(name) putname(name)
 
 static long ll_dir_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long 
arg)
 {
@@ -1441,6 +1420,7 @@ free_lmv:
                return rc;
        }
        case LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY: {
+               struct filename *name = NULL;
                char            *filename = NULL;
                int              namelen = 0;
                int              rc;
@@ -1453,20 +1433,17 @@ free_lmv:
                if (!(exp_connect_flags(sbi->ll_md_exp) & OBD_CONNECT_LVB_TYPE))
                        return -ENOTSUPP;
 
-               filename = ll_getname((const char *)arg);
-               if (IS_ERR(filename))
-                       return PTR_ERR(filename);
+               name = ll_getname((const char *)arg);
+               if (IS_ERR(name))
+                       return PTR_ERR(name);
 
+               filename = name->name;
                namelen = strlen(filename);
-               if (namelen < 1) {
-                       rc = -EINVAL;
-                       goto out_rmdir;
-               }
 
                rc = ll_rmdir_entry(inode, filename, namelen);
 out_rmdir:
-               if (filename)
-                       ll_putname(filename);
+               if (name)
+                       ll_putname(name);
                return rc;
        }
        case LL_IOC_LOV_SWAP_LAYOUTS:
@@ -1481,15 +1458,17 @@ out_rmdir:
                struct lov_user_md *lump;
                struct lov_mds_md *lmm = NULL;
                struct mdt_body *body;
+               struct filename *name;
                char *filename = NULL;
                int lmmsize;
 
                if (cmd == IOC_MDC_GETFILEINFO ||
                    cmd == IOC_MDC_GETFILESTRIPE) {
-                       filename = ll_getname((const char *)arg);
-                       if (IS_ERR(filename))
-                               return PTR_ERR(filename);
+                       name = ll_getname((const char *)arg);
+                       if (IS_ERR(name))
+                               return PTR_ERR(name);
 
+                       filename = name->name;
                        rc = ll_lov_getstripe_ea_info(inode, filename, &lmm,
                                                      &lmmsize, &request);
                } else {
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index ffab2e0..7a0948c 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ getname(const char __user * filename)
 {
        return getname_flags(filename, 0, NULL);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(getname);
 
 struct filename *
 getname_kernel(const char * filename)
@@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ void putname(struct filename *name)
        } else
                __putname(name);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(putname);
 
 static int check_acl(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 {



Is that a good idea to export these symbols, given that lustre may be
the only user? 

Looking forward to your insight.

Thanks,
Boqun

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