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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Matthew House <mattlloydhouse@gmail.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] add statmnt(2) syscall
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:41:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230919-hackordnung-asketisch-331907800aa0@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegsjE_G4d-W2hCZc0y+PioRgvK5TxT7kFAVgBqX6zN2dKg@mail.gmail.com>

> >  with __u32 size for mnt_root and mnt_point
> 
> Unnecessary if the strings are nul terminated.

All ok by me so far but how does the kernel know the size of the buffer
to copy into? Wouldn't it be better to allow userspace to specify that?
I'm probably just missing something but I better ask.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-19 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-13 15:22 [RFC PATCH 0/3] quering mount attributes Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-13 15:22 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] add unique mount ID Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-14  9:03   ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-14  9:30     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-14  9:36       ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-14  9:43         ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-14 10:06           ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15  1:31           ` Ian Kent
2023-09-13 15:22 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] add statmnt(2) syscall Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-14  6:11   ` Amir Goldstein
2023-09-15  1:05     ` Ian Kent
2023-09-14  9:27   ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-14 10:13     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-14 15:26       ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15  8:56         ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-18 13:51           ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-18 14:14             ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-18 14:24               ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-18 14:32                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-18 14:40                   ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-18 14:51                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-18 15:22                       ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-18 15:39                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-19  0:37                           ` Matthew House
2023-09-19  8:02                             ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-19  9:07                               ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-19 10:51                                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-19 12:41                                   ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2023-09-19 12:59                                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-19 13:18                                       ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-19 21:28                               ` Matthew House
2023-09-20  9:42                                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-20 13:26                                   ` Matthew House
2023-09-21  7:34                                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-26 13:48               ` Florian Weimer
2023-09-26 14:06                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-26 14:19                   ` Florian Weimer
2023-09-26 14:33                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-26 14:39                       ` Florian Weimer
2023-09-26 14:36                     ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-26 14:13                 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-18 20:58             ` Andreas Dilger
2023-09-19 12:50               ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-20  0:33                 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-18 14:29         ` Jeff Layton
2023-09-18 14:35           ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-20  9:43           ` David Laight
2023-09-14 20:39   ` Paul Moore
2023-09-15  9:10     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-17 18:18   ` Sargun Dhillon
2023-09-17 23:36     ` Ian Kent
2023-09-18 13:05       ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-25 12:57   ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-09-25 13:04     ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-25 13:13       ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-25 13:19         ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-25 13:20           ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-25 15:46             ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-09-26 10:05               ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-27  8:46             ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-13 15:22 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] add listmnt(2) syscall Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-14  6:00   ` Amir Goldstein
2023-09-14  8:50     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-14 10:01       ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-15  1:00     ` Ian Kent
2023-09-17  0:54   ` Matthew House
2023-09-17 14:32     ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-09-18 13:15       ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-19 16:47         ` Paul Moore
2023-09-28 10:07           ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-10-04 19:22             ` Paul Moore
2023-09-14  6:47 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] quering mount attributes Amir Goldstein
2023-09-15  1:20   ` Ian Kent
2023-09-15  3:06     ` Amir Goldstein
2023-09-16  2:04       ` Ian Kent
2023-09-16  2:19       ` Ian Kent

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