linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Terminate hugetlbfs mount argument list

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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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