Commit 550f7ca9 authored by Max Kellermann's avatar Max Kellermann Committed by Ilya Dryomov
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ceph: give up on paths longer than PATH_MAX



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: default avatarDario Weißer <dario@cure53.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMax Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlex Markuze <amarkuze@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
parent d6fd6f82
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