vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to corrupted symlink names on disk. This function helps safely terminate the names. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 99eb803..fc2e035 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -94,4 +94,9 @@ return nd->saved_names[nd->depth]; } +static inline void nd_terminate_link(void *name, size_t len, size_t maxlen) +{ + ((char *) name)[min(len, maxlen)] = '\0'; +} + #endif /* _LINUX_NAMEI_H */