patch 08/38: CLIENT: change hard limit on symlink length

From: Kendrick M. Smith (kmsmith@umich.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 17:59:20 EST


In NFSv4, there is no hard limit on the length of symlink text.
This patch changes the -ENAMETOOLONG test in nfs_symlink() accordingly.

--- old/fs/nfs/dir.c Mon Jul 29 22:54:08 2002
+++ new/fs/nfs/dir.c Mon Jul 29 11:50:09 2002
@@ -898,15 +898,15 @@ nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct de
         struct nfs_fattr sym_attr;
         struct nfs_fh sym_fh;
         struct qstr qsymname;
- unsigned int maxlen;
         int error;

         dfprintk(VFS, "NFS: symlink(%s/%ld, %s, %s)\n", dir->i_sb->s_id,
                 dir->i_ino, dentry->d_name.name, symname);

         error = -ENAMETOOLONG;
- maxlen = (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version==2) ? NFS2_MAXPATHLEN : NFS3_MAXPATHLEN;
- if (strlen(symname) > maxlen)
+ if (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version == 2 && strlen(symname) > NFS2_MAXPATHLEN)
+ goto out;
+ else if (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version == 3 && strlen(symname) > NFS3_MAXPATHLEN)
                 goto out;

 #ifdef NFS_PARANOIA

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