Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758245AbYLPQih (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:38:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756714AbYLPQiL (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:38:11 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:45368 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756648AbYLPQiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:38:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:38:08 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Duane Griffin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks Message-ID: <20081216163808.GU28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1229442720-31056-1-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com> <1229442720-31056-2-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1229442720-31056-2-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 517 Lines: 11 On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:51:53PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote: > A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to > corrupted symlink names on disk. This helper helps safely terminate the > names. s/unsigned/size_t/g and into the queue that goes... -- 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/