> Hi Eric,
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> wrote:
> > when an hfsplus image gets corrupted it might happen that the catalog
> > namelength field gets b0rked. If we mount such an image
> > the memcpy() in hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni() writes more than the 255
> > that fit in the name field. Depending on the size of the overwritten
> > data, we either only get memory corruption or also trigger an oops like
> > this:
> >
> > --- linux/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c.orig 2008-08-24 14:52:03.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux/fs/hfsplus/catalog.c 2008-08-24 14:54:15.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ int hfsplus_find_cat(struct super_block
> > return -EIO;
> > }
> >
> > + if (be16_to_cpu(tmp.thread.nodeName.length) >= 127) {
> > + printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: catalog name length corrupted\n");
> > + return -EIO;
> > + }
>
> So, where does this 127 come from? I can only find reference to a
> maximum length of 255 unicode characters (16 bits per character) in
> the following technical note for HFS+ (see sections "HFS Plus Names"
> and "Catalog Thread Records"):
>
>
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html
>
> Hmm?