linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values

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Message-Id: <20080313130355.6a84d0c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:03:55 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values


> Subject: [PATCH] Do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values

Please put "quota:" at the start of the title to identify the subsystem.  So,

Subject: [PATCH] quota: do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values

would have suited.  Thanks.

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:22:55 +0100
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:

> From: Andrew Perepechko <andrew.perepechko@....com>
> 
> We should check whether quota limits set via Q_SETQUOTA are not exceeding
> limits which quota format is able to handle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Perepechko <andrew.perepechko@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> 
> ---
>   Andrew, would you please queue it up for inclusion? Thanks.

For 2.6.26, I assume?  I am not able to determine the seriousness of this
problem from the changelog nor from the patch itself.
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