Re: [PATCH] Terminate hugetlbfs mount argument list

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Mar 11 2008 - 18:55:00 EST


On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:48:46PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > The match_table_t for the mount arguments in hugetlbfs wasn't
> > terminated as match_tokens expect. I didn't see a crash just code
> > audit, but it's still safer to terminate it in case the variables after
> > that in .data are not NULL.
>
> I think you're misunderstanding the match_token() interface. The
> comment before match_token() says:

Hmm indeed I did. To my defense it's a weird unusual coding pattern
that tricked me. What good is it to give terminator elements own enum values?

-Andi
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