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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"open list:OMFS FILESYSTEM"
	<linux-karma-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs, omfs: add NULL terminator in the end up the token list
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:24:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150312202408.GF9840@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426191071-765-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:11:09PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> match_token() expects a NULL terminator at the end of the token list so that
> it would know where to stop. Not having one causes it to overrun to invalid
> memory.
> 
> In practice, passing a mount option that omfs didn't recognize would sometimes
> panic the system.

Yikes, thanks for the catch!

Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>

> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-12 20:11 [PATCH] fs, omfs: add NULL terminator in the end up the token list Sasha Levin
2015-03-12 20:24 ` Bob Copeland [this message]

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