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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-10-21 23:41:38 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-22 15:13:18 (GMT)
commit321bcf92163038e2b96fd3bf9bc29f755c81d9ef (patch)
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parentb68680e4731abbd78863063aaa0dca2a6d8cc723 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-321bcf92163038e2b96fd3bf9bc29f755c81d9ef.tar.xz
dcache: don't expose uninitialized memory in /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>
Well, it's not especially important that target->d_iname get the contents of dentry->d_iname, but it's important that it get initialized with *something*, otherwise we're just exposing some random piece of memory to anyone who reads the link at /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> for the deleted file, when it's still held open by someone. I've run a test program that copies a short (<36 character) name ontop of a long (>=36 character) name and see that the first time I run it, without this patch, I get unpredicatable results out of /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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