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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:49:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120206224941.GA20305@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120203011612.GS23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:16:12AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:46:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 	* WTF is XFS doing with these checks?

It is validating nlink against the maximum supported by the XFS
on-disk format. It was originally limited by what could be reported
to pathconf() on Irix - a signed int.  We have that same problem on
Linux, too, because on 32 bit systems the maximum number of links
that can be reported via pathconf is 2^31....

> 	Note that we have them
> done _twice_ on all paths - explictly from xfs_create(), xfs_link(),
> xfs_rename() and then from xfs_bumplink() called by exactly the same
> set of functions.

Well, that's a bit stupid, isn't it? Trivial to fix, though...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]                 ` <20120202012258.GQ23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-02 21:24                   ` [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename Al Viro
2012-02-02 23:46                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03  1:16                       ` Al Viro
2012-02-03  1:45                         ` Al Viro
2012-02-03  2:00                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 14:57                         ` Chris Mason
2012-02-03 17:08                         ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 19:34                           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06  8:50                           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 13:56                             ` Al Viro
2012-02-06 17:05                               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 17:11                                 ` Al Viro
2012-02-07  7:21                                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 22:49                         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-02-03  8:25                     ` Andreas Dilger
2012-02-03 17:03                       ` Al Viro
2012-02-04  7:42                         ` Andreas Dilger

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