Re: [PATCH] fat: Use pointer to d_name[0] in put_user() for compat case

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Mon Feb 14 2022 - 03:06:59 EST


Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> writes:

> The put_user(val,ptr) macro wants a pointer in the second parameter, but in
> fat_ioctl_filldir() the d_name field references a whole "array of chars".
> Usually the compiler automatically converts it and uses a pointer to that
> array, but it's more clean to explicitly give the real pointer to where someting
> is put, which is in this case the first character of the d_name[] array.
>
> I noticed that issue while trying to optimize the parisc put_user() macro
> and used an intermediate variable to store the pointer. In that case I
> got this error:
>
> In file included from include/linux/uaccess.h:11,
> from include/linux/compat.h:17,
> from fs/fat/dir.c:18:
> fs/fat/dir.c: In function ‘fat_ioctl_filldir’:
> fs/fat/dir.c:725:33: error: invalid initializer
> 725 | if (put_user(0, d2->d_name) || \
> | ^~
> include/asm/uaccess.h:152:33: note: in definition of macro ‘__put_user’
> 152 | __typeof__(ptr) __ptr = ptr; \
> | ^~~
> fs/fat/dir.c:759:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘FAT_IOCTL_FILLDIR_FUNC’
> 759 | FAT_IOCTL_FILLDIR_FUNC(fat_ioctl_filldir, __fat_dirent)
>
> The patch below cleans it up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>

Looks good.

Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/fs/fat/dir.c b/fs/fat/dir.c
> index c4a274285858..249825017da7 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/fat/dir.c
> @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static int func(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int name_len, \
> if (name_len >= sizeof(d1->d_name)) \
> name_len = sizeof(d1->d_name) - 1; \
> \
> - if (put_user(0, d2->d_name) || \
> + if (put_user(0, &d2->d_name[0]) || \
> put_user(0, &d2->d_reclen) || \
> copy_to_user(d1->d_name, name, name_len) || \
> put_user(0, d1->d_name + name_len) || \

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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>