From: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/2] readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:41:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c20d2f8f6817a39401155cfc80f0dff88df116e0.1774350128.git.chleroy@kernel.org> (raw)
In several places in readdir.c there are calculations of the total size
of a dirent, which contains a few fixed fields plus a name field with
variable size. To add fun every dirent is of a slightly different type:
- struct old_linux_dirent
- struct linux_dirent
- struct linux_dirent64
- struct compat_old_linux_dirent
- struct compat_linux_dirent
Replace ugly size calculation by a macro called dirent_size() which
calculates the size of the structure based on the pointed type and
the name field len.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
---
fs/readdir.c | 19 +++++++------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/readdir.c b/fs/readdir.c
index 73707b6816e9..fb910dc2f52b 100644
--- a/fs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/readdir.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#define dirent_size(dirent, len) offsetof(typeof(*(dirent)), d_name[len])
+
/*
* Some filesystems were never converted to '->iterate_shared()'
* and their directory iterators want the inode lock held for
@@ -198,9 +200,7 @@ static bool fillonedir(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
}
buf->result++;
dirent = buf->dirent;
- if (!user_write_access_begin(dirent,
- (unsigned long)(dirent->d_name + namlen + 1) -
- (unsigned long)dirent))
+ if (!user_write_access_begin(dirent, dirent_size(dirent, namlen + 1)))
goto efault;
unsafe_put_user(d_ino, &dirent->d_ino, efault_end);
unsafe_put_user(offset, &dirent->d_offset, efault_end);
@@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ static bool filldir(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
struct getdents_callback *buf =
container_of(ctx, struct getdents_callback, ctx);
unsigned long d_ino;
- int reclen = ALIGN(offsetof(struct linux_dirent, d_name) + namlen + 2,
- sizeof(long));
+ int reclen = ALIGN(dirent_size(dirent, namlen + 2), sizeof(long));
int prev_reclen;
unsigned int flags = d_type;
@@ -352,8 +351,7 @@ static bool filldir64(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
struct linux_dirent64 __user *dirent, *prev;
struct getdents_callback64 *buf =
container_of(ctx, struct getdents_callback64, ctx);
- int reclen = ALIGN(offsetof(struct linux_dirent64, d_name) + namlen + 1,
- sizeof(u64));
+ int reclen = ALIGN(dirent_size(dirent, namlen + 1), sizeof(u64));
int prev_reclen;
unsigned int flags = d_type;
@@ -460,9 +458,7 @@ static bool compat_fillonedir(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name,
}
buf->result++;
dirent = buf->dirent;
- if (!user_write_access_begin(dirent,
- (unsigned long)(dirent->d_name + namlen + 1) -
- (unsigned long)dirent))
+ if (!user_write_access_begin(dirent, dirent_size(dirent, namlen + 1)))
goto efault;
unsafe_put_user(d_ino, &dirent->d_ino, efault_end);
unsafe_put_user(offset, &dirent->d_offset, efault_end);
@@ -519,8 +515,7 @@ static bool compat_filldir(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen
struct compat_getdents_callback *buf =
container_of(ctx, struct compat_getdents_callback, ctx);
compat_ulong_t d_ino;
- int reclen = ALIGN(offsetof(struct compat_linux_dirent, d_name) +
- namlen + 2, sizeof(compat_long_t));
+ int reclen = ALIGN(dirent_size(dirent, namlen + 2), sizeof(compat_long_t));
int prev_reclen;
unsigned int flags = d_type;
--
2.49.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-24 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 11:41 Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) [this message]
2026-03-24 11:41 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-03-24 12:08 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] readdir: Introduce dirent_size() David Laight
2026-03-24 13:46 ` Jan Kara
2026-03-24 15:07 ` Christian Brauner
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