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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] numa: fix BUILD_BUG_ON for node_read_distance
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:58:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310225841.GA6536@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003101449480.21849@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:50:21PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> node_read_distance() has a BUILD_BUG_ON() to prevent buffer overruns when
> the number of nodes printed will exceed the buffer length.
> 
> Each node only needs four chars: three for distance (maximum distance is
> 255) and one for a seperating space or a trailing newline.

Is this causing a problem as-is today that we need to resolve for
2.6.34?  Or is this 2.6.35 material?

Who chose this original number, and why is it off by 1/2?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 22:50 [patch] numa: fix BUILD_BUG_ON for node_read_distance David Rientjes
2010-03-10 22:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-03-10 23:05   ` David Rientjes
2010-03-10 23:11     ` Greg KH

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