[U-Boot] [PATCH] cramfs: fix bug for wrong filename comparison

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Fri Jul 5 23:23:21 CEST 2013


Hi Holger,

On Thu,  4 Jul 2013 10:29:46 +0200, Holger Brunck
<holger.brunck at keymile.com> wrote:

> If we have the following entry in cramfs:
> => cramfsls
>  -rw-r--r--  1922689 uImage
> 
> cramfsload would also succeed if we try to do:
> => cramfsload uImage_1
> CRAMFS load complete: 1922689 bytes loaded to 0x100000
> 
> The old code succeeds if the begin of the filename we search matches
> with a filename stored in cramfs. But the searched file may have
> additional characters and is therfore not the file we are looking for.
> So compare also the length of the filename we search and the
> filename we found in cramfs. This leads to:
> => cramfsload uImage_1
> can't find corresponding entry
> CRAMFS LOAD ERROR<0> for uImage_1!
> 
> which is the behaviour we want.
> Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck at keymile.com>
> cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> ---

Can't the commit message above be summarized as follows?

---8<---
"cramfsload uImage_1" succeeds even though the actual file is named
"uImage".

Fix file name comparison when one name is the prefix of the other.
---8<---

The demonstrative part of the commit message can go here, below the
commit message delimiter '---'.

>  fs/cramfs/cramfs.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cramfs/cramfs.c b/fs/cramfs/cramfs.c
> index 910955d..e578a1e 100644
> --- a/fs/cramfs/cramfs.c
> +++ b/fs/cramfs/cramfs.c
> @@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ static unsigned long cramfs_resolve (unsigned long begin, unsigned long offset,
>  			namelen--;
>  		}
>  
> -		if (!strncmp (filename, name, namelen)) {
> +		if (!strncmp(filename, name, namelen) &&
> +		    (namelen == strlen(filename))) {
>  			char *p = strtok (NULL, "/");
>  
>  			if (raw && (p == NULL || *p == '\0'))


Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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