Re: [PATCH] vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminatesymlinks

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Dec 16 2008 - 11:38:38 EST


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:51:53PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote:
> A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to
> corrupted symlink names on disk. This helper helps safely terminate the
> names.

s/unsigned/size_t/g and into the queue that goes...
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