From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:12:01 -0500
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On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:07:15PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> That said, I haven't looked at how nasty it would be to change the name 
> lookup to use <ptr,len>. Maybe it wouldn't be as horrible as I suspect it 
> is (the filesystems themselves wouldn't need changing, since the lowlevel 
> filesystem name lookup routines always sees a 'struct dentry' rather than 
> the pathname).

FYI there are other filesystems that historically store the the name
without terminating NULL in the symlink and would benefit from that.