Re: [PATCH] net/9p/trans_virtio.c: add a terminal char for mount tag

[Dominique Martinet]

Greg Kurz wrote on Wed, Aug 01, 2018:
> So this patch basically turns chan->tag into a nul terminated string,
> which is indeed more convenient and robust. Maybe you can update the
> rest of the code accordingly and drop chan->tag_len then ?

If we can use that to simplify some other part of the code, that's
certainly more appealing to me :)


> FWIW, 9P strings received from the client are also converted to
> nul terminated strings:

Oh, good to know; I guess that makes sense when these strings come and
go from/to other components of the kernel that likely expect that.

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Dominique