From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git misc stuff
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:18:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDp++xQkiawy2z2r@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whHCLK=_h27zMi8A=sn-GO=C+JOAX4nb7QjuGRbLebgbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 08:21:55AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:00 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Al Viro (3):
> > 9p: fix misuse of sscanf() in v9fs_stat2inode()
>
> Hmm. Technically this changes some of the rules. It used to check that
> i tall fit in 32 bytes. Now there could be arbitrary spaces in there
> that pushes it over the limit.
>
> I don't think we care, but..
I doubt that something was sending "HARDLINKCOUNT 123"
*and* relying upon the truncation to have that parsed as 1 rather than 123...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-27 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-27 6:00 [git pull] vfs.git misc stuff Al Viro
2021-02-27 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-27 17:18 ` Al Viro [this message]
2021-02-27 16:29 ` pr-tracker-bot
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2020-12-24 23:35 Al Viro
2020-12-25 19:09 ` pr-tracker-bot
2017-05-09 5:34 Al Viro
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