Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/cleanups

Refresh the branch for a dependent commit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index c654205f648d..1d82336b1cd4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ static int ext4_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len,
 	struct qstr qstr = {.name = str, .len = len };
 	const struct dentry *parent = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_parent);
 	const struct inode *inode = READ_ONCE(parent->d_inode);
+	char strbuf[DNAME_INLINE_LEN];
 
 	if (!inode || !IS_CASEFOLDED(inode) ||
 	    !EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_encoding) {
@@ -683,6 +684,21 @@ static int ext4_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len,
 		return memcmp(str, name->name, len);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * 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;
+		qstr.name = strbuf;
+		/* prevent compiler from optimizing out the temporary buffer */
+		barrier();
+	}
+
 	return ext4_ci_compare(inode, name, &qstr, false);
 }