Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core

Merge reason: We are queueing up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
index 54b8c28bebc8..720d885e8dca 100644
--- a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
+++ b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
@@ -474,17 +474,22 @@ befs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 		befs_data_stream *data = &befs_ino->i_data.ds;
 		befs_off_t len = data->size;
 
-		befs_debug(sb, "Follow long symlink");
-
-		link = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
-		if (!link) {
-			link = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-		} else if (befs_read_lsymlink(sb, data, link, len) != len) {
-			kfree(link);
-			befs_error(sb, "Failed to read entire long symlink");
+		if (len == 0) {
+			befs_error(sb, "Long symlink with illegal length");
 			link = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
 		} else {
-			link[len - 1] = '\0';
+			befs_debug(sb, "Follow long symlink");
+
+			link = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+			if (!link) {
+				link = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+			} else if (befs_read_lsymlink(sb, data, link, len) != len) {
+				kfree(link);
+				befs_error(sb, "Failed to read entire long symlink");
+				link = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+			} else {
+				link[len - 1] = '\0';
+			}
 		}
 	} else {
 		link = befs_ino->i_data.symlink;