| commit | 035146851cfa2fe24c1d9dc7637bb009ad06b2f7 | |
| author | Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> | |
| Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:47:11 +0000 (19 20:47 +0000) | ||
| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | |
| Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:07:38 +0000 (31 18:07 -0500) | ||
| tree | b6dd89c60a2100e1c0c48abd1688d3d2ff5f5607 | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | a17d5232de7b53d34229de79ec22f4bb04adb7e4 | commitdiff |
vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks
A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to
corrupted symlink names on disk. This function helps safely terminate
the names.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to
corrupted symlink names on disk. This function helps safely terminate
the names.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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