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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Subject: [17/18] jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:46:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091217004709.378331483@mini.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091217005306.GA6230@kroah.com>

2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------
From: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

commit 2e16cfca6e17ae37ae21feca080a6f2eca9087dc upstream.

Ever since jffs2_garbage_collect_metadata() was first half-written in
February 2001, it's been broken on architectures where 'char' is signed.
When garbage collecting a symlink with target length above 127, the payload
length would end up negative, causing interesting and bad things to happen.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 fs/jffs2/gc.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/jffs2/gc.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/gc.c
@@ -700,7 +700,8 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_metadat
 	struct jffs2_raw_inode ri;
 	struct jffs2_node_frag *last_frag;
 	union jffs2_device_node dev;
-	char *mdata = NULL, mdatalen = 0;
+	char *mdata = NULL;
+	int mdatalen = 0;
 	uint32_t alloclen, ilen;
 	int ret;
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-17  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-17  0:53 [00/18] 2.6.27.42-stable review Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [01/18] signal: Fix alternate signal stack check Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [02/18] debugfs: fix create mutex racy fops and private data Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [03/18] firewire: ohci: handle receive packets with a data length of zero Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [04/18] fuse: reject O_DIRECT flag also in fuse_create Greg KH
2009-12-17  1:36   ` David Daney
2009-12-17  4:15     ` Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [05/18] hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [06/18] pata_hpt{37x|3x2n}: fix timing register masks (take 2) Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [07/18] ssb: Fix range check in sprom write Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:45 ` [08/18] V4L/DVB: Fix test in copy_reg_bits() Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [09/18] x86, apic: Enable lapic nmi watchdog on AMD Family 11h Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [10/18] x86: ASUS P4S800 reboot=bios quirk Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [11/18] x86, Calgary IOMMU quirk: Find nearest matching Calgary while walking up the PCI tree Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [12/18] x86: Fix iommu=nodac parameter handling Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [13/18] x86: GART: pci-gart_64.c: Use correct length in strncmp Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [14/18] [IA64] fix csum_ipv6_magic() Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [15/18] USB: fix mos7840 problem with minor numbers Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [16/18] backlight: lcd - Fix wrong sizeof Greg KH
2009-12-17  0:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-12-17  0:46 ` [18/18] matroxfb: fix problems with display stability Greg KH

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