make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen

In all callchains leading to prepend_name(), the value left in *buflen
is eventually discarded unused if prepend_name() has returned a negative.
So we are free to do what prepend() does, and subtract from *buflen
*before* checking for underflow (which turns into checking the sign
of subtraction result, of course).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 265e0ce9769c70db65d5f9df11c4365f44c6dd29..ca02c13a84aa24d55b18bbced577ece923605665 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2833,9 +2833,9 @@ static int prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, struct qstr *name)
        u32 dlen = ACCESS_ONCE(name->len);
        char *p;
 
-       if (*buflen < dlen + 1)
-               return -ENAMETOOLONG;
        *buflen -= dlen + 1;
+       if (*buflen < 0)
+               return -ENAMETOOLONG;
        p = *buffer -= dlen + 1;
        *p++ = '/';
        while (dlen--) {