Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751781Ab3HSXFp (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:05:45 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55303 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751419Ab3HSXFo (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:05:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:05:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Arun KS Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, Matthew Wilcox , Bruce Fields , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, vinayak menon , Nagachandra P , Vikram MP Subject: Re: [PATCH] SeqFile: Fix overflow condition Message-Id: <20130819160542.38e4a91b568c0a15f1068e09@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 14 On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:02:37 +0530 Arun KS wrote: > seq_path()/seq_commit() is treating a d_path() failure as an overflow > condition, but it isn't. This is too brief. When fixing a bug please always describe the user-visible effects of the bug. And unless it's utterly obvious, provide a description of how you set about fixing that bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/