linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] generic compat_sys

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Message-ID: <4926CF66.9040305@sandeen.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:10:30 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	tony.luck@...el.com, ralf@...ux-mips.org, kyle@...artin.ca,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic compat_sys_ustat

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Due to a different size of ino_t ustat needs a compat handler, but
> currently only x86 and mips provide one.  Add a generic compat_sys_ustat
> and switch all architectures over to it.
> 
> Found by Eric Sandeen when running xfstests/017 on ppc64, which causes
> stack smashing warnings on RHEL/Fedora due to the too large amount of
> data writen by the syscall.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Tested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Works for me (fixes the case I had), thanks.

-Eric
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