Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Endless getdents() in vfat filesystem | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:24:09 +0100 |
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Am 15.11.2015 um 12:05 schrieb Vegard Nossum: > On 11/14/2015 07:19 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: >> Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> writes: >> >>>>> Yes, it does fixes the problem here, but I can't really comment on the >>>>> correctness of the patch. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the quick reponse, >>>> >>>> I made cleanup and made sure fake_offset is corrected. >>>> >>>> Richard, Signed-off-by was missed in your patch, so I added. Can you >>>> agree to Signed-off-by? >>> >>> Sure! >> >> Attached updated patch made smaller changes, and with missed Cc: stable. >> >> Andrew, please queue this up. >> >> Thanks. >> > > It would be nice to have a proper patch description too. How about this? > > """ > For the root directory, . and .. are faked (using dir_emit_dots()) and > ctx->pos is reset from 2 to 0. > > A corrupted root directory could cause fat_get_entry() to fail, but > ->iterate() (fat_readdir()) reports progress to the VFS (with ctx->pos > rewound to 0), so any following calls to ->iterate() continue to return > the same entries again and again. > > The result is that userspace will never see the end of the directory, > causing e.g. 'ls' to hang in a getdents() loop. > """
Agreed. And you deserve also a Reported-and-tested-by. :-)
Thanks, //richard
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