Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: keep corrupted fs from crashing kernel in erofs_namei()

[Chao Yu]

On 2019/2/15 15:57, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 03:02:25PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>> On 2019/2/1 20:16, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * on-disk error, let's only BUG_ON in the debugging mode.
>>> +	 * otherwise, it will return 1 to just skip the invalid name
>>> +	 * and go on (in consideration of the lookup performance).
>>> +	 */
>>> +	DBG_BUGON(qd->name > qd->end);
>>
>> qd->name == qd->end is not allowed as well?
>>
>> So will it be better to return directly here?
>>
>> 	if (unlikely(qd->name >= qd->end)) {
>> 		DBG_BUGON(1);
>> 		return 1;
>> 	}
> 
> Please don't add likely/unlikely() annotations unless you have
> benchmarked it and it makes a difference.

Well, it only occur for corrupted image, since the image is readonly, so it
is really rare.

Thanks,

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
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