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From: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
To: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ceph: avoid panic with mismatched symlink sizes in fill_inode()
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:24:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328300672.21405.90.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328280936-2688-1-git-send-email-xi.wang@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 09:55 -0500, Xi Wang wrote:
> Return -EINVAL rather than panic if iinfo->symlink_len and
> inode->i_size do not match.
> 
> Also use kstrndup rather than kmalloc/memcpy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>

Looks good, though it might good to at least call
WARN_ON().  What do you think?

I will commit this (either with or without the
WARN_ON()).

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-03 14:55 [PATCH RESEND] ceph: avoid panic with mismatched symlink sizes in fill_inode() Xi Wang
2012-02-03 20:24 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2012-02-03 20:49   ` Xi Wang
2012-02-03 21:04     ` Alex Elder
2012-02-03 20:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Xi Wang

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