Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:35:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 4/8] vfs: Convert pstore to fs_context |
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:03 AM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > > Why the separation between parse and apply now? Is this due to the > > reconfigure calls? (i.e. why not call pstore_set_kmsg_bytes() in > > pstore_parse_param()? > > Because parameter parsing is now done up front, before the creation of the > superblock of the invocation of the reconfigure method - so there's still a > bunch of places that can error out before you know you're going to be > successful in creating/reconfiguring the superblock.
Thanks! Makes sense. :)
-- Kees Cook
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