[G][F][B][X][PATCH 1/1] efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.

dann frazier dann.frazier at canonical.com
Wed Nov 4 15:02:49 UTC 2020


From: Michael Schaller <misch at google.com>

BugLink: https:/bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899993

Without this patch efivarfs_alloc_dentry creates dentries with slashes in
their name if the respective EFI variable has slashes in its name. This in
turn causes EIO on getdents64, which prevents a complete directory listing
of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.

This patch replaces the invalid shlashes with exclamation marks like
kobject_set_name_vargs does for /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ to have consistently
named dentries under /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ and /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.

Signed-off-by: Michael Schaller <misch at google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925074502.150448-1-misch@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 336af6a4686d885a067ecea8c3c3dd129ba4fc75)
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com>
---
 fs/efivarfs/super.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 28bb5689333a..15880a68faad 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_t *name16, efi_guid_t vendor,
 
 	name[len + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN+1] = '\0';
 
+	/* replace invalid slashes like kobject_set_name_vargs does for /sys/firmware/efi/vars. */
+	strreplace(name, '/', '!');
+
 	inode = efivarfs_get_inode(sb, d_inode(root), S_IFREG | 0644, 0,
 				   is_removable);
 	if (!inode)
-- 
2.29.2




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