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ceph: give up on paths longer than PATH_MAX

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If the full path to be built by ceph_mdsc_build_path() happens to be
longer than PATH_MAX, then this function will enter an endless (retry)
loop, effectively blocking the whole task.  Most of the machine
becomes unusable, making this a very simple and effective DoS
vulnerability.

I cannot imagine why this retry was ever implemented, but it seems
rather useless and harmful to me.  Let's remove it and fail with
ENAMETOOLONG instead.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Dario Weißer <dario@cure53.de>
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Markuze <amarkuze@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
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Max Kellermann 2024-11-18 23:28:28 +01:00 committed by Ilya Dryomov
parent d6fd6f8280
commit 550f7ca98e
1 changed files with 4 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -2800,12 +2800,11 @@ retry:
if (pos < 0) { if (pos < 0) {
/* /*
* A rename didn't occur, but somehow we didn't end up where * The path is longer than PATH_MAX and this function
* we thought we would. Throw a warning and try again. * cannot ever succeed. Creating paths that long is
* possible with Ceph, but Linux cannot use them.
*/ */
pr_warn_client(cl, "did not end path lookup where expected (pos = %d)\n", return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
pos);
goto retry;
} }
*pbase = base; *pbase = base;