nfsd: fix rare symlink decoding bug

[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / fs / nfsd / nfs4proc.c

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
index 6851b003f2a431455e4c7aa1bf3e78d9df4eaa14..8f029db5d271d6c77e6bf22a3cf3e3924ce27f08 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
@@ -617,15 +617,6 @@ nfsd4_create(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
 
        switch (create->cr_type) {
        case NF4LNK:
-               /* ugh! we have to null-terminate the linktext, or
-                * vfs_symlink() will choke.  it is always safe to
-                * null-terminate by brute force, since at worst we
-                * will overwrite the first byte of the create namelen
-                * in the XDR buffer, which has already been extracted
-                * during XDR decode.
-                */
-               create->cr_linkname[create->cr_linklen] = 0;
-
                status = nfsd_symlink(rqstp, &cstate->current_fh,
                                      create->cr_name, create->cr_namelen,
                                      create->cr_linkname, create->cr_linklen,