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| author | J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]> | 2007-10-21 16:41:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2007-10-22 08:13:18 -0700 |
| commit | 321bcf92163038e2b96fd3bf9bc29f755c81d9ef (patch) | |
| tree | 68a1e6b659cac5ffdadb4b7412fa5b7a4244541b /include/linux | |
| parent | b68680e4731abbd78863063aaa0dca2a6d8cc723 (diff) | |
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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