Re: [PATCH, v2] ext3: ensure link targets are NULL-terminated

From: Duane Griffin
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 05:19:35 EST


2008/12/12 Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/12/12 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Really? The ext2 on-disk format requires that the fast symlink be
>> null-terminated on disk? Even though the length is already in i_size?
>>
>> It seems that's true. How un-ext2-like.
>>
>> ext2 and ext4 need the same fix, yes?
>
> Yes. I've sent them out already, but thanks to a monumental cock-up
> with the CCs they may not have made it to the list. I'll check and
> resend to real addresses if necessary.

Seems they did make it:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122903437006575&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122903451306859&w=2

Cheers,
Duane.

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