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Linus Torvalds 0c93ac6940 readdir: make sure to verify directory entry for legacy interfaces too 
This does the directory entry name verification for the legacy
"fillonedir" (and compat) interface that goes all the way back to the
dark ages before we had a proper dirent, and the readdir() system call
returned just a single entry at a time.

Nobody should use this interface unless you still have binaries from
1991, but let's do it right.

This came up during discussions about unsafe_copy_to_user() and proper
checking of all the inputs to it, as the networking layer is looking to
use it in a few new places.  So let's make sure the _old_ users do it
all right and proper, before we add new ones.

See also commit 8a23eb804c ("Make filldir[64]() verify the directory
entry filename is valid") which did the proper modern interfaces that
people actually use. It had a note:

    Note that I didn't bother adding the checks to any legacy interfaces
    that nobody uses.

which this now corrects.  Note that we really don't care about POSIX and
the presense of '/' in a directory entry, but verify_dirent_name() also
ends up doing the proper name length verification which is what the
input checking discussion was about.

[ Another option would be to remove the support for this particular very
  old interface: any binaries that use it are likely a.out binaries, and
  they will no longer run anyway since we removed a.out binftm support
  in commit eac6165570 ("x86: Deprecate a.out support").

  But I'm not sure which came first: getdents() or ELF support, so let's
  pretend somebody might still have a working binary that uses the
  legacy readdir() case.. ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjbvzCAhAtvG0d81W5o0-KT5PPTHhfJ5ieDFq+bGtgOYg@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-17 11:39:49 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-04-17 08:38:23 -07:00
block block: remove the unused RQF_ALLOCED flag 2021-04-02 11:18:31 -06:00
certs certs: Replace K{U,G}IDT_INIT() with GLOBAL_ROOT_{U,G}ID 2021-01-21 16:16:10 +00:00
crypto crypto: mips/poly1305 - enable for all MIPS processors 2021-03-08 11:52:17 +01:00
Documentation Networking fixes for 5.12-rc8, including fixes from netfilter, 2021-04-17 09:57:15 -07:00
drivers Networking fixes for 5.12-rc8, including fixes from netfilter, 2021-04-17 09:57:15 -07:00
fs readdir: make sure to verify directory entry for legacy interfaces too 2021-04-17 11:39:49 -07:00
include Networking fixes for 5.12-rc8, including fixes from netfilter, 2021-04-17 09:57:15 -07:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-03-14 12:23:34 -07:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel Networking fixes for 5.12-rc8, including fixes from netfilter, 2021-04-17 09:57:15 -07:00
lib lib: remove "expecting prototype" kernel-doc warnings 2021-04-16 16:10:37 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm: ptdump: fix build failure 2021-04-16 16:10:37 -07:00
net netlink: don't call ->netlink_bind with table lock held 2021-04-16 17:01:04 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-03-09 17:15:56 -08:00
scripts kasan: remove redundant config option 2021-04-16 16:10:36 -07:00
security kasan: remove redundant config option 2021-04-16 16:10:36 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.12-rc7 2021-04-08 09:01:30 -07:00
tools Networking fixes for 5.12-rc8, including fixes from netfilter, 2021-04-17 09:57:15 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
virt KVM: x86/mmu: Consider the hva in mmu_notifier retry 2021-02-22 13:16:53 -05:00
.clang-format cxl for 5.12 2021-02-24 09:38:36 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore clang-lto series for v5.12-rc1 2021-02-23 09:28:51 -08:00
.mailmap .mailmap: fix old email addresses 2021-04-09 14:54:23 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS treewide: Miguel has moved 2021-02-26 09:41:03 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.12-rc8, including fixes from netfilter, 2021-04-17 09:57:15 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.12-rc7 2021-04-11 15:16:13 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.