fat: reject name longer than NAME_MAX in msdos_format_name()

msdos_format_name() performs no upper-bound check on the input name length.
It silently truncates an arbitrarily long name into the 8.3 form (11 bytes)
and returns success. The subsequent fat_scan() then matches only against
these 11 truncated bytes, so it returns an inode as long as any entry with
the same 8.3 name exists on disk.

For example, passing a 300-byte name of all 'A's returns 0 with res set to
"AAAAAAAA" (8 'A's + 3 padding spaces), reporting success for a name far
longer than NAME_MAX.

As a result, when a user calls open() on a path component longer than
NAME_MAX (255) bytes, the VFS only enforces PATH_MAX, not the length of an
individual component. The dentry keeps the original long name but gets an
inode attached and becomes positive. Later in vfs_open() -> fsnotify_open()
-> fanotify_info_copy_name() triggers WARN_ON_ONCE(), and the event is
reported to userspace with an empty name.

vfat is not affected, as create goes through xlate_to_uni() which refuses
names longer than FAT_LFN_LEN.

Fix this by checking 'len > NAME_MAX' at the entry of msdos_format_name(),
the single entry point for all msdos name handling, aligning with the
NAME_MAX check that xfs/9p/ceph/simple_lookup() perform at lookup.

Signed-off-by: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260629130943.3671939-1-wozizhi@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fat/namei_msdos.c b/fs/fat/namei_msdos.c
index 0fd2971ad4b1..c93e05d35ef8 100644
--- a/fs/fat/namei_msdos.c
+++ b/fs/fat/namei_msdos.c
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ static int msdos_format_name(const unsigned char *name, int len,
 	unsigned char c;
 	int space;
 
+	if (len > NAME_MAX)
+		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
+
 	if (name[0] == '.') {	/* dotfile because . and .. already done */
 		if (opts->dotsOK) {
 			/* Get rid of dot - test for it elsewhere */