Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265527AbUAPPqx (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:46:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265528AbUAPPqx (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:46:53 -0500 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:51980 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265527AbUAPPqw (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:46:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:46:39 +0100 From: Andries Brouwer To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: GOTO Masanori , arjanv@redhat.com, Steve Youngs , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase recursive symlink limit from 5 to 8 Message-ID: <20040116164639.A2809@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <2flllofnvp6.fsf@saruman.uio.no> <1073814570.4431.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <817jzsd8lg.wl@omega.webmasters.gr.jp> <20040116012511.GI21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040116012511.GI21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:25:11AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 15 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:25:11AM +0000, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > 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. Ugly, possibly - broken, no. - 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/