linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] debugfs.c: the max length of debugfs argument is too short

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Date:	Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:37:56 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	darrick.wong@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] debugfs.c: the max length of debugfs argument is too
 short

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 06:30:56PM +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> The max length of debugfs argument is 256 which is too short, the
> arguments are two paths, the PATH_MAX is 4096 according to
> /usr/include/linux/limits.h, use 2048 (4096 / 2) is a reasonable value.

I'd just use BUFSIZ (which is 8192 on Linux systems).  That's what the
ss library uses, and if you might have two paths and PATH_MAX is 4096,
2048 could easily be too small.

					- Ted
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