Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jun 2002 02:59:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] 37 stack variables >= 1K in 2.4.17 |
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Dawson Engler wrote:
> > Not realistic - we have a recursion through the ->follow_link(), and > > a lot of stuff can be called from ->follow_link(). We _do_ have a > > limit on depth of recursion here, but it won't be fun to deal with. > > You mean following function pointers is not realistic? Actually the > function pointers in linxu are pretty easy to deal with since, by > and large, they are set by static structure initialization and not > really fussed with afterwards.
I mean that due to the loop (link_path_walk->do_follow_link->foofs_follow_link ->vfs_follow_link->link_path_walk) you will get infinite maximal depth for everything that can be called by any of these functions. And that's a _lot_ of stuff.
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