Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 04:08:49 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | [PATCH] symlink nesting level change |
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On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:57:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org> > By author: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Is this what you are looking for? > > include/linux/namei.h MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5 > > (used in fs/namei.c, where comment claims MAX_NESTING is equal to 8) > > Wonder if it would make sense to make this a sysctl...
No. It's way past time to bump it to 8. Everyone had been warned - for months now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> ---- --- a/include/linux/namei.h 2006-03-31 20:08:42.000000000 -0500 +++ b/include/linux/namei.h 2006-05-02 23:06:46.000000000 -0400 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct file *file; }; -enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5 }; +enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 8 }; struct nameidata { struct dentry *dentry; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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