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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:10:30 -0600
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic compat_sys_ustat
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Due to a different size of ino_t ustat needs a compat handler, but
> currently only x86 and mips provide one.  Add a generic compat_sys_ustat
> and switch all architectures over to it.
> 
> Found by Eric Sandeen when running xfstests/017 on ppc64, which causes
> stack smashing warnings on RHEL/Fedora due to the too large amount of
> data writen by the syscall.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Tested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Works for me (fixes the case I had), thanks.

-Eric