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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] f2fs: avoid utf8_strncasecmp() with unstable name" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From fc3bb095ab02b9e7d89a069ade2cead15c64c504 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 13:08:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: avoid utf8_strncasecmp() with unstable name

If the dentry name passed to ->d_compare() fits in dentry::d_iname, then it may be concurrently modified by a rename. This can cause undefined behavior (possibly out-of-bounds memory accesses or crashes) in utf8_strncasecmp(), since fs/unicode/ isn't written to handle strings that may be concurrently modified.

Fix this by first copying the filename to a stack buffer if needed. This way we get a stable snapshot of the filename.

Fixes 2c2eb7a300cd ("f2fs: Support case-insensitive file name lookups")
Cc <[email protected]> # v5.4+
Cc Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc Daniel Rosenberg <[email protected]>
Cc Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by Chao Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]>
fs/f2fs/dir.c +16 -0
index 29f70f2295cc..d35976785e8c 100644
@@ -1114,11 +1114,27 @@ static int f2fs_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len,
 	const struct inode *dir = READ_ONCE(parent->d_inode);
 	const struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_SB(dentry->d_sb);
 	struct qstr entry = QSTR_INIT(str, len);
+	char strbuf[DNAME_INLINE_LEN];
 	int res;
 
 	if (!dir || !IS_CASEFOLDED(dir))
 		goto fallback;
 
+	/*
+	 * If the dentry name is stored in-line, then it may be concurrently
+	 * modified by a rename.  If this happens, the VFS will eventually retry
+	 * the lookup, so it doesn't matter what ->d_compare() returns.
+	 * However, it's unsafe to call utf8_strncasecmp() with an unstable
+	 * string.  Therefore, we have to copy the name into a temporary buffer.
+	 */
+	if (len <= DNAME_INLINE_LEN - 1) {
+		memcpy(strbuf, str, len);
+		strbuf[len] = 0;
+		entry.name = strbuf;
+		/* prevent compiler from optimizing out the temporary buffer */
+		barrier();
+	}
+
 	res = utf8_strncasecmp(sbi->s_encoding, name, &entry);
 	if (res >= 0)
 		return res;