Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753959AbbDTVm7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:42:59 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f181.google.com ([209.85.213.181]:33260 "EHLO mail-ig0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751544AbbDTVm5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:42:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20150420181222.GK889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1429553588-24764-16-git-send-email-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20150420213247.GN889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:42:56 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: x77OMMyvUs3nVqPNgh2vkDxVeyg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/24] link_path_walk: kill the recursion From: Linus Torvalds To: Al Viro Cc: Neil Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 588 Lines: 16 On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And no, we will *never* lift the recursion limit. Not for 1kB, not for > 1MB. Never. Just to clarify: that's for the "remove restrictions completely". Upping it to 32 or 40 would be fine. But not with allocations on the stack. Linus -- 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/