[Gluster-devel] glfs_readdir_r is painful

[Eric Blake]

On 10/30/2013 04:08 PM, Anand Avati wrote:
> Eric,
> Thanks for the insights. I have posted a patch at
> http://review.gluster.org/6201 which clarifies the usage of
> glfs_readdir_r() and also introduce glfs_readdir().

Thanks for starting that.  I see an off-by-one in that patch; pre-patch
you did:

strncpy (dirent->d_name, gf_dirent->d_name, 256);

but post-patch, you have:

strncpy (dirent->d_name, gf_dirent->d_name, GF_NAME_MAX);

with GF_NAME_MAX set to either NAME_MAX or 255.  This is a bug; you MUST
strncpy at least 1 byte more than the maximum name if you are to
guarantee a NUL-terminated d_name for the user.

Oh, and NAME_MAX is not guaranteed to be defined as 255; if it is larger
than 255 you are wasting memory compared to XFS, if it is less than 255
[although unlikely], you have made it impossible to return valid file
names to the user.  You may be better off just hard-coding GF_NAME_MAX
to 255 regardless of what the system has for its NAME_MAX.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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