fs/dcache: Use read_word_at_a_time() in dentry_string_cmp()

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dentry_string_cmp() performs the word-at-a-time reads from 'cs' and may
read slightly more than it was requested in kmallac().  Normally this
would make KASAN to report out-of-bounds access, but this was
workarounded by commit df4c0e36f1 ("fs: dcache: manually unpoison
dname after allocation to shut up kasan's reports").

This workaround is not perfect, since it allows out-of-bounds access to
dentry's name for all the code, not just in dentry_string_cmp().

So it would be better to use read_word_at_a_time() instead and revert
commit df4c0e36f1.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Andrey Ryabinin 2018-02-01 21:00:51 +03:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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