Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:16:46 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use one constant to control MAX SYMLINKS in a name |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:46:14PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > I'd suggest changing the number in line 14 in namei.h to 40 > as well, thus using the same limit in both cases and clearing up > such confusion. > > The following patch (against 2.6.15.4) seems to make this change and fixes > up the comments:
It also creates a trivially exploitable stack overflow. - 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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