Rather than always allocating the high-order XATTR_SIZE_MAX buffer
which is costly and prone to failure, only allocate what is needed and
realloc if necessary.

Fixes https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/489
---
 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
index 8f66b39..9426e60 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 
 int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, struct dentry *new)
 {
-       ssize_t list_size, size;
-       char *buf, *name, *value;
+       ssize_t list_size, size, value_size = 0;
+       char *buf, *name, *value = NULL;
        int error;
 
        if (!old->d_inode->i_op->getxattr ||
@@ -41,23 +41,36 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, struct dentry *new)
        if (!buf)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-       error = -ENOMEM;
-       value = kmalloc(XATTR_SIZE_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!value)
-               goto out;
-
        list_size = vfs_listxattr(old, buf, list_size);
        if (list_size <= 0) {
                error = list_size;
-               goto out_free_value;
+               goto out;
        }
 
        for (name = buf; name < (buf + list_size); name += strlen(name) + 1) {
-               size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, XATTR_SIZE_MAX);
+retry:
+               size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, value_size);
+               if (size == -ERANGE) {
+                       size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, NULL, 0);
+               }
+
                if (size <= 0) {
                        error = size;
                        goto out_free_value;
                }
+
+               if (size > value_size) {
+                       void *new;
+                       new = krealloc(value, size, GFP_KERNEL);
+                       if (!new) {
+                               error = -ENOMEM;
+                               goto out_free_value;
+                       }
+                       value = new;
+                       value_size = size;
+                       goto retry;
+               }
+
                error = security_inode_copy_up_xattr(old, new,
                                                     name, value, &size);
                if (error < 0)
-- 
2.4.6

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