[PATCH v2 2/2] 9p: skip directory entries with names longer than NAME_MAX
From: Haobin Wu
Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 10:04:05 EST
The 9p wire format carries directory entry names of up to 65535 bytes
and nothing on the client checks them against NAME_MAX. Since the
previous patch, v9fs_dir_readdir_dotl() passes such names straight to
dir_emit(), and the VFS only rejects names of PATH_MAX bytes or more in
verify_dirent_name(), as -EIO, which again fails the whole getdents64()
call.
A name between NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX is therefore returned to userspace
even though every later operation on it fails with -ENAMETOOLONG, and
POSIX requires readdir() to only return components of at most NAME_MAX
bytes. Nothing can use such an entry, so skip it instead of returning it
or failing the listing, reusing the strlen() result that was already
computed for dir_emit().
Suggested-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/vz5bum547fqyxf5z4m3x7tuqkuq52jlopm65t7hvynqeulh7i3@2t4wnhfxs7qv/
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5-1
Signed-off-by: Haobin Wu <853555@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/9p/vfs_dir.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c b/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
index af00b79d801e..ad6fdc99883d 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ static int v9fs_dir_readdir_dotl(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
}
while (rdir->head < rdir->tail) {
+ size_t namelen;
err = p9dirent_read(fid->clnt, rdir->buf + rdir->head,
rdir->tail - rdir->head,
@@ -182,10 +183,14 @@ static int v9fs_dir_readdir_dotl(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
return -EIO;
}
- if (!dir_emit(ctx, curdirent.d_name,
- strlen(curdirent.d_name),
- QID2INO(&curdirent.qid),
- curdirent.d_type)) {
+ namelen = strlen(curdirent.d_name);
+ if (namelen > NAME_MAX) {
+ p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_VFS,
+ "skipping entry with %zu byte name\n",
+ namelen);
+ } else if (!dir_emit(ctx, curdirent.d_name, namelen,
+ QID2INO(&curdirent.qid),
+ curdirent.d_type)) {
kfree(curdirent.d_name);
return 0;
}
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)