ext4: check for NUL characters in extended attribute's name
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:36:52 +0000 (12:36 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:36:52 +0000 (12:36 -0400)
commit7d95178c77014dbd8dce36ee40bbbc5e6c121ff5
treee5e343d20f0e2ba6efb9eaf970683c4ebc1c68df
parent5ef2a69993676a0dfd49bf60ae1323eb8a288366
ext4: check for NUL characters in extended attribute's name

Extended attribute names are defined to be NUL-terminated, so the name
must not contain a NUL character.  This is important because there are
places when remove extended attribute, the code uses strlen to
determine the length of the entry.  That should probably be fixed at
some point, but code is currently really messy, so the simplest fix
for now is to simply validate that the extended attributes are sane.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200401

Reported-by: Wen Xu <wen.xu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
fs/ext4/xattr.c