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inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL.
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Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0'
byte to user space after the filename.  Since the rewrite that
terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of
event_size.  Ouch!

So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to
set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the
strange nul_inotify_event.  I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero
will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more
efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to
do.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Eric W. Biederman authored and Eric Paris committed Aug 27, 2009
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13 changes: 6 additions & 7 deletions fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
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static struct vfsmount *inotify_mnt __read_mostly;

/* this just sits here and wastes global memory. used to just pad userspace messages with zeros */
static struct inotify_event nul_inotify_event;

/* these are configurable via /proc/sys/fs/inotify/ */
static int inotify_max_user_instances __read_mostly;
static int inotify_max_queued_events __read_mostly;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -199,8 +196,10 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group,
inotify_free_event_priv(fsn_priv);
}

/* round up event->name_len so it is a multiple of event_size */
name_len = roundup(event->name_len, event_size);
/* round up event->name_len so it is a multiple of event_size
* plus an extra byte for the terminating '\0'.
*/
name_len = roundup(event->name_len + 1, event_size);
inotify_event.len = name_len;

inotify_event.mask = inotify_mask_to_arg(event->mask);
Expand All @@ -224,8 +223,8 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group,
return -EFAULT;
buf += event->name_len;

/* fill userspace with 0's from nul_inotify_event */
if (copy_to_user(buf, &nul_inotify_event, len_to_zero))
/* fill userspace with 0's */
if (clear_user(buf, len_to_zero))
return -EFAULT;
buf += len_to_zero;
event_size += name_len;
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