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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-09-26 12:53:42 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-09-26 12:54:28 +0200
commited3982cf3748b657ffb79d9d1c2e4a562661db2d (patch)
tree6e3654f460e23aa1b1512896aa3f03886a69be1b /fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
parentcba9bd22a5f8f857534b9a7f3fb3cafa0ac5fb75 (diff)
parentd93dc5c4478c1fd5de85a3e8aece9aad7bbae044 (diff)
Merge commit 'v3.1-rc7' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/befs/linuxvfs.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/befs/linuxvfs.c23
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
index 54b8c28bebc..720d885e8dc 100644
--- a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
+++ b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
@@ -474,17 +474,22 @@ befs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
befs_data_stream *data = &befs_ino->i_data.ds;
befs_off_t len = data->size;
- befs_debug(sb, "Follow long symlink");
-
- link = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
- if (!link) {
- link = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- } else if (befs_read_lsymlink(sb, data, link, len) != len) {
- kfree(link);
- befs_error(sb, "Failed to read entire long symlink");
+ if (len == 0) {
+ befs_error(sb, "Long symlink with illegal length");
link = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
} else {
- link[len - 1] = '\0';
+ befs_debug(sb, "Follow long symlink");
+
+ link = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+ if (!link) {
+ link = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ } else if (befs_read_lsymlink(sb, data, link, len) != len) {
+ kfree(link);
+ befs_error(sb, "Failed to read entire long symlink");
+ link = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+ } else {
+ link[len - 1] = '\0';
+ }
}
} else {
link = befs_ino->i_data.symlink;