linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 02/25] e2fsprogs: Remove impossible name

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Date:	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:52:37 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/25] e2fsprogs: Remove impossible name_len tests.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:49:17PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The name_len field in ext2_dir_entry is actually comprised of
> the name length in the lower 8 bytes, and the filetype in the
> high 8 bytes.  So in places, we mask name_len with 0xFF to
> get the actual length.
> 
> But once we have masked name_len with 0xFF, there is no point
> in testing whether it is greater than EXT2_NAME_LEN, which
> is 255 - or 0xFF.  So all of these tests are extraneous.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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