Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: fix d_path() for unreachable paths

[Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:02, Al Viro wrote:
> * blackfin cplbinfo: utter crap; it's used to decide which procfs file
> is being opened - by dumping full pathname into a (on-stack) buffer
> and then parsing it.  Stupid *and* broken.

it works without having to copy & paste the same exact structures over
and over.  a suggestion as how to do it cleanly without bloating the
code is certainly welcome.  it doesnt really matter that it's on the
stack as the usage is small and d_path() is given the size of the
buffer, so it isnt going to overflow.

> * blackfin traps.c:decode_address(): for one thing, pathnames has been
> known to be longer than 256 bytes.

we know the paths are longer than 256 bytes.  the output is to give a
reasonable idea of what is crashing.  realistically, nothing
executable resides in a 256+ byte path on an embedded system.

>  For another... locking in that loop
> over processes and VMAs of each looks very suspicios, while we are at it.

we've reviewed it several times and exercised it in multiple ways.  so
unless you have a real idea of something being wrong, the code has
been vetted heavily.
-mike