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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcache: error out if the name buffer is too short
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:41:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140126174134.GZ10323@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140126163536.GA21320@redhat.com>

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 05:35:36PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Al, Denys, unless I am totally confused the "restart" logic is very broken.
> > We can't simply restart because the main loop changes dentry?
> 
> Plus prepend_name() can't actually return -ENAMETOOLONG,
> "int error" inside the loop is wrong.

... and already fixed.  Said that, the point about restarts is definitely
true.  See vfs.git#for-linus - it should propagate in a few

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-26 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-24 14:04 [PATCH] dcache: error out if the name buffer is too short Denys Vlasenko
2014-01-24 16:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-26 15:37   ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-26 15:51     ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-26 16:35       ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-26 17:41         ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-01-27 17:40           ` Oleg Nesterov

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