match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.

There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options().  I believe it currently
can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.

The source string is a substing of the mount options.  The kernel silently
truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero.  See
compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().

The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.

We're safe as long as PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.  PATH_MAX is 4096.  As far as
I know, the smallest PAGE_SIZE is also 4096.

Here's a patch that makes the code a bit more obviously correct.  It
doesn't depend on PATH_MAX <= PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>

  CC      fs/nfs/nfsroot.o
fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:131: error: tokens causes a section type conflict
make[2]: *** [fs/nfs/nfsroot.o] Error 1

This is due to mixing const and non-const content in the same section
which halfway recent gccs absolutely hate.  Fixed by dropping the const.
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make the match_*() functions take a const pointer to the options table
and make strings pointers in the options table const too.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!