Name
d_validate -- verify dentry provided from insecure source
Synopsis
int d_validate (struct dentry * dentry, struct dentry * dparent, unsigned int hash, unsigned int len);
Arguments
- dentry
The dentry alleged to be valid
- dparent
The parent dentry
- hash
Hash of the dentry
- len
Length of the name
Description
An insecure source has sent us a dentry, here we verify it.
This is used by ncpfs in its readdir implementation.
Zero is returned in the dentry is invalid.
NOTE
This function does _not_ dereference the pointers before we have
validated them. We can test the pointer values, but we
must not actually use them until we have found a valid
copy of the pointer in kernel space..