From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
tony.luck@intel.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic compat_sys_ustat
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:10:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4926CF66.9040305@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081121084105.GA7155@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Due to a different size of ino_t ustat needs a compat handler, but
> currently only x86 and mips provide one. Add a generic compat_sys_ustat
> and switch all architectures over to it.
>
> Found by Eric Sandeen when running xfstests/017 on ppc64, which causes
> stack smashing warnings on RHEL/Fedora due to the too large amount of
> data writen by the syscall.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Works for me (fixes the case I had), thanks.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 8:41 [PATCH] generic compat_sys_ustat Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-21 9:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-11-21 15:10 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-11-21 17:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-24 20:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-25 17:01 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-11-26 12:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-26 13:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-11-28 9:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-11 19:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-03-14 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
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