Re: [PATCH 6/11] nfsacl-lazy-alloc

[Trond Myklebust]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 06:28, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Allow to allocate pages in the receive buffers lazily
> 
> Patch from Olaf Kirch <okir@xxxxxxx>: Replies to the GETACL remote
> procedure call can become quite big, yet in the common case replies will
> be very small.  This patch checks of argument pages have already been
> allocated, and allocates pages up to the maximum length of the xdr_buf
> when this is not the case.

AFAICS, there is nothing to stop xdr_partial_copy_from_skb() from
writing beyond the end of xdr->pages[]. How do you propose to prevent
this?

Cheers,
  Trond
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