Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/11] nfsacl-lazy-alloc | | From | Trond Myklebust <> | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:38:38 -0400 |
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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@suse.de>: 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?
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