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vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks
authorDuane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:47:11 +0000 (20:47 +0000)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:07:38 +0000 (18:07 -0500)
commitd4e059612d380dd0443810d77fcd6f3a8912386a
treeb6dd89c60a2100e1c0c48abd1688d3d2ff5f5607tree | snapshot
parent6e7f02d35e428c83252ba25669009700632bed45commit | diff
vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks

A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to
corrupted symlink names on disk. This function helps safely terminate
the names.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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