Re: [PATCH] fs, omfs: add NULL terminator in the end up the token list

From: Bob Copeland
Date: Thu Mar 12 2015 - 16:25:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:11:09PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> match_token() expects a NULL terminator at the end of the token list so that
> it would know where to stop. Not having one causes it to overrun to invalid
> memory.
>
> In practice, passing a mount option that omfs didn't recognize would sometimes
> panic the system.

Yikes, thanks for the catch!

Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>

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