From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752126Ab1CPHVh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:21:37 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:57247 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083Ab1CPHV3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:21:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:21:23 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Dave Chinner Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] VFS - the first pile Message-ID: <20110316072123.GR22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20110315213248.GL22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20110316061917.GA30195@dastard> <20110316065103.GP22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110316065103.GP22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:51:03AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 05:19:17PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I think there's something not quite right in this tree. xfstests 005 > > (nested symlink test) fails on both ext4 and XFS with the following: > > Yeah... Brown paperbag time - it's actually a missing piece that > got glued with a commit a bit later in queue ;-/ I've dropped it > into for-linus for the morning push; in the meanwhile, the patch is > below. BTW, you want to update 005 in there - we are back to correct "maximum is 40 symlinks total, 8 levels on nesting" for all syscalls. Add the 41st symlink to your chain in testcase ;-)