oss-security - kernel: hfs: add sanity check for file name length

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:04:02 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: kernel: hfs: add sanity check for file name length

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/9/303
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755431
http://git.kernel.org/linus/bc5b8a9003132ae44559edd63a1623

On a corrupted file system the ->len field could be wrong leading to a
buffer overflow.

Thanks, Eugene

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