From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use one constant to control MAX SYMLINKS in a name
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:16:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060212211646.GW27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EF9E96.109@tlinx.org>
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:46:14PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I'd suggest changing the number in line 14 in namei.h to 40
> as well, thus using the same limit in both cases and clearing up
> such confusion.
>
> The following patch (against 2.6.15.4) seems to make this change and fixes
> up the comments:
It also creates a trivially exploitable stack overflow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-12 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 3:31 max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 10:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH] Use one constant to control MAX SYMLINKS in a name Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 21:16 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-02-12 18:06 ` max symlink = 5? ?bug? ?feature deficit? Al Viro
2006-02-12 19:19 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-12 19:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-12 19:48 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 21:18 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-12 21:25 ` Al Viro
2006-02-12 22:54 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-13 0:08 ` Al Viro
2006-02-13 0:54 ` Linda Walsh
2006-02-13 7:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-13 7:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-13 8:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-13 8:11 ` Al Viro
2006-02-13 14:10 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-02-13 8:20 ` Helge Hafting
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