linux-ext4 - [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

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Message-Id: <200911081812.nA8ICD4B001460@demeter.kernel.org>
Date:	Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:12:13 GMT
From:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354





--- Comment #181 from Anonymous Emailer <anonymous@...nel-bugs.osdl.org>  2009-11-08 18:12:03 ---
Reply-To: hch@...radead.org

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:07:15PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
wrote:
> That said, I haven't looked at how nasty it would be to change the name 
> lookup to use <ptr,len>. Maybe it wouldn't be as horrible as I suspect it 
> is (the filesystems themselves wouldn't need changing, since the lowlevel 
> filesystem name lookup routines always sees a 'struct dentry' rather than 
> the pathname).

FYI there are other filesystems that historically store the the name
without terminating NULL in the symlink and would benefit from that.

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