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-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ext4.h4
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/namei.c4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 1d79012c5a5b..48dc2c3247ad 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -2273,6 +2273,10 @@ static inline int ext4_forced_shutdown(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
* Structure of a directory entry
*/
#define EXT4_NAME_LEN 255
+/*
+ * Base length of the ext4 directory entry excluding the name length
+ */
+#define EXT4_BASE_DIR_LEN (sizeof(struct ext4_dir_entry_2) - EXT4_NAME_LEN)
struct ext4_dir_entry {
__le32 inode; /* Inode number */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index e37da8d5cd0c..767b4bfe39c3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1466,10 +1466,10 @@ int ext4_search_dir(struct buffer_head *bh, char *search_buf, int buf_size,
de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)search_buf;
dlimit = search_buf + buf_size;
- while ((char *) de < dlimit) {
+ while ((char *) de < dlimit - EXT4_BASE_DIR_LEN) {
/* this code is executed quadratically often */
/* do minimal checking `by hand' */
- if ((char *) de + de->name_len <= dlimit &&
+ if (de->name + de->name_len <= dlimit &&
ext4_match(dir, fname, de)) {
/* found a match - just to be sure, do
* a full check */