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Message-ID: <20080311225623.GE428@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:56:23 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...l.org,
wli@...omorphy.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Terminate hugetlbfs mount argument list
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:48:46PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > The match_table_t for the mount arguments in hugetlbfs wasn't
> > terminated as match_tokens expect. I didn't see a crash just code
> > audit, but it's still safer to terminate it in case the variables after
> > that in .data are not NULL.
>
> I think you're misunderstanding the match_token() interface. The
> comment before match_token() says:
Hmm indeed I did. To my defense it's a weird unusual coding pattern
that tricked me. What good is it to give terminator elements own enum values?
-Andi
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