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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@permabit.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix crash with absurdly but not impossibly deeply nested device stacks.
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:17:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130129091712.GD30188@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ea9rsrc7u.fsf@just-testing.permabit.com>

On Mon, Jan 28 2013, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> diskutil.c: Check for overflow in disk_util.path.
> diskutil.h: Expand disk_util.path to PATH_MAX.

Good stuff, thanks. Though I think that we should just return NULL on
failing to setup the path.

And:

> +	l = snprintf(du->path, sizeof(du->path), "%s/stat", path);
> +	if (l < 0 || l >= sizeof(du->path)) {

cosmetically, that should never be > sizeof(du->path), but it doesn't
hurt.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29  1:24 path name lengths Ken Raeburn
2013-01-29  1:48 ` [PATCH] Fix crash with absurdly but not impossibly deeply nested device stacks Ken Raeburn
2013-01-29  9:17   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2013-01-29  9:19     ` Jens Axboe
2013-01-29 21:06     ` Ken Raeburn
2013-01-29 21:15       ` Jens Axboe
2013-01-29 22:09         ` Ken Raeburn
2013-01-30 11:58           ` Jens Axboe
2013-01-30 21:25             ` [PATCH] Fix bugs in [v]snprintf usage Ken Raeburn
2013-01-30 21:48               ` Jens Axboe

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