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2008-05-14add match_strlcpy() us it to make v9fs make uname and remotename parsing ↵Markus Armbruster
more robust match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer. There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options(). I believe it currently can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious. The source string is a substing of the mount options. The kernel silently truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero. See compat_sys_mount() and do_mount(). The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX. We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. PATH_MAX is 4096. As far as I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096. Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct. It doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-05-03[AFS]: Make the match_*() functions take const options.David Howells
Make the match_*() functions take a const pointer to the options table and make strings pointers in the options table const too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2004-11-10[PATCH] lib/parser: fix %% parsingDomen Puncer
Code looks like it intended to parse "%%" in pattern string as "%". Fix it, so it really does that. Compile and run tested. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2003-12-29[PATCH] Add lib/parser.c kernel-docAndrew Morton
From: Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com> Add documentation and comments to lib/parser.c and include/linux/parser.h
2003-10-05[PATCH] lib/parser: Not recognize nul string as "%s" (6/6)Hirofumi Ogawa
Current match_token recognize "foo=" as "foo=%s". So this change the nul string does not recognize as "%s".
2003-10-01[PATCH] table-driven filesystems option parsingAndrew Morton
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>, me Add generic filesystem options parser (infrastructure) and use it to parse mount options in several filesystems (adfs, affs, autofs, autofs4, ext2, ext3, fat, hfs, hpfs, isofs, jfs, procfs, udf, and ufs). It saves between 128 and 512 bytes per filesystem.