From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:38:08 +0000 Message-ID: <20081216163808.GU28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1229442720-31056-1-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com> <1229442720-31056-2-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton To: Duane Griffin Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:45368 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756648AbYLPQiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:38:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1229442720-31056-2-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:51:53PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote: > A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to > corrupted symlink names on disk. This helper helps safely terminate the > names. s/unsigned/size_t/g and into the queue that goes...