Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:25:11 +0000
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au>,
       Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:45:47AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
 
> But I still think 6 is too small from user level point of view, as
> Petter wrote.  The example is /usr/lib library links.  I got bug
> report which complained that a library want to use "bounce" link:
> 
> 	/usr/lib/liba -> /etc/alternatives/liba -> /usr/lib/another/libb.
> 
> If .so file uses major.minor scheme, then /usr/lib/liba.so links:
> 
> 	/usr/lib/liba.so -> /usr/lib/liba.so.2 -> /usr/lib/liba.so.2.3
> 
> and so on.  It can easily exceed 6 symlinks.  I think the correct fix
> is to make VFS not to overflow stacks.  Is it allowable change?

	You are quite welcome to submit clean patches that would do that.
So far all suggested "solutions" had turned out to be broken _and_ ugly.
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