[PATCH v3 3/3] 9p: skip over-long directory entry names for legacy 9p2000 too

From: Haobin Wu

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 22:50:25 EST


The legacy 9p2000 and 9p2000.u readdir path, v9fs_dir_readdir(), parses
each entry with p9stat_read() and, unlike the 9p2000.L path, never had
a 256-byte name limit: a name of any length up to the wire maximum was
handed to dir_emit(). getdents64() therefore returned names longer than
NAME_MAX that no later syscall can use, and failed with -EIO for names
of PATH_MAX bytes or more.

Apply the same NAME_MAX check as the previous patch does for
v9fs_dir_readdir_dotl(), so both protocol variants behave the same.

Note that this is a behaviour change for 9p2000 and 9p2000.u: entries
with names longer than NAME_MAX used to be listed and are now skipped.

Suggested-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/3910569.MHq7AAxBmi@weasel/
Signed-off-by: Haobin Wu <853555@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/9p/vfs_dir.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c b/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
index 08d1a3429654..31de9ac913f0 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ static int v9fs_dir_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
rdir->tail = n;
}
while (rdir->head < rdir->tail) {
+ size_t namelen;
+
err = p9stat_read(fid->clnt, rdir->buf + rdir->head,
rdir->tail - rdir->head, &st);
if (err <= 0) {
@@ -126,8 +128,16 @@ static int v9fs_dir_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
return -EIO;
}

- over = !dir_emit(ctx, st.name, strlen(st.name),
- QID2INO(&st.qid), dt_type(&st));
+ namelen = strlen(st.name);
+ if (namelen > NAME_MAX) {
+ p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_ERROR,
+ "skip dentry: name length %zu > NAME_MAX\n",
+ namelen);
+ over = false;
+ } else {
+ over = !dir_emit(ctx, st.name, namelen,
+ QID2INO(&st.qid), dt_type(&st));
+ }
p9stat_free(&st);
if (over)
return 0;
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)