linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsprogs: Avoid infinite loop in ext2fs_find_block

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Message-ID: <20111120041823.GI4130@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:18:23 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Niu <niu@...mcloud.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsprogs: Avoid infinite loop in ext2fs_find_block_device()

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 08:50:38PM +0800, Niu wrote:
> From 81bfd58b3980f940c23f87f891365a289df776ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Niu Yawei <niu@...mcloud.com>
> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 04:31:11 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: maximum nested link count
> 
> Define EXT2FS_MAX_NESTED_LINKS as 8, and check the link count
> not exceeding it in ext2fs_find_block_device() and follow_link().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niu Yawei <niu@...mcloud.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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