From: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] ext4: fix ext4_tune_sb_params padding
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 23:12:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260108041240.GA75173@macsyma.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251208180310.GH89492@frogsfrogsfrogs>
On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 10:03:10AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>
> Hmm... given that the ondisk super field is a __u8[64], it feels weird
> to expose a __u8[68] field in the ioctl ABI and silently truncate the
> user's input if they try to use that many bytes. I'd have enlarged the
> padding field but as Ted was both author and maintainer I'm ok with
> letting him have the final say.
Thanks, I've elected to the the original v1 version of the patch.
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-08 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-05 11:19 [PATCH] [v2] ext4: fix ext4_tune_sb_params padding Arnd Bergmann
2025-12-08 18:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-12-09 8:56 ` Jan Kara
2026-01-08 4:12 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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