Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Add record offset check

[Christoph Hellwig]

> 
> diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/brec.c b/fs/hfsplus/brec.c
> index 2312de3..5c51d04 100644
> --- a/fs/hfsplus/brec.c
> +++ b/fs/hfsplus/brec.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ u16 hfs_brec_keylen(struct hfs_bnode *node, u16 rec)
>  			node->tree->node_size - (rec + 1) * 2);
>  		if (!recoff)
>  			return 0;
> +		if (recoff >= node->tree->node_size) {
> +			printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: recoff %d too large\n", recoff);
> +			return 0;
> +		}

As non-obvious as it sounds 0 is indded the canonical error return from
hfs_brec_keylen, so that patch looks good to me.  Can you resend it
with a better title and description mentioning better validatation of
the on-disk structures? 

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