commit 550f7ca98ee028a606aa75705a7e77b1bd11720f upstream.
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>
[idryomov@gmail.com: backport to 6.1: pr_warn() is still in use]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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