Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 26/26] Make filldir[64]() verify the directory entry filename is valid

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:56:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:24 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 8a23eb804ca4f2be909e372cf5a9e7b30ae476cd ]
>
> I didn't mark this for stable because I expect things to still change
> - particularly the WARN_ON_ONCE() should be removed before final 5.4,
> I just wanted to see if anybody could trigger it with testing etc.
>
> (At least syzbot did trigger it).
>
> If you do want to take it, take it without the WARN_ON_ONCE() calls
> and note that in the commit message..

I'll take both when you send a patch to remove it.

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Thanks,
Sasha