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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:38:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081216163808.GU28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229442720-31056-2-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com>

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...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-16 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-16 15:51 [PATCH 0/8, v3] ensure symlinks are NUL-terminated Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:51 ` [PATCH] vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:51   ` [PATCH] vfs: ensure page symlinks are NUL-terminated Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:51     ` [PATCH] ext2: ensure fast " Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:51       ` [PATCH] ext3: " Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:51         ` [PATCH] ext4: " Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:51           ` [PATCH] ufs: " Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:51             ` [PATCH] sysv: " Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 15:52               ` [PATCH] freevxfs: " Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 19:40             ` [PATCH] ufs: " Evgeniy Dushistov
2008-12-16 23:18               ` Duane Griffin
2008-12-27 12:22                 ` Evgeniy Dushistov
2008-12-16 16:38   ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-12-16 23:46   ` [PATCH] vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks Andreas Dilger
2008-12-17  0:26     ` Duane Griffin
2008-12-19 15:03       ` Duane Griffin
2008-12-19 19:28         ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-19 19:43         ` Al Viro
2008-12-16 17:03 ` [PATCH 0/8, v3] ensure symlinks are NUL-terminated Dave Kleikamp
2008-12-16 17:26   ` Duane Griffin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-16 16:53 [PATCH, v4] vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks Duane Griffin
2008-12-16 16:53 ` [PATCH] " Duane Griffin

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