linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] generic compat_sys

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Message-ID: <20081125170141.GA30056@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:01:41 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sandeen@...deen.net,
	davem@...emloft.net, tony.luck@...el.com, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	kyle@...artin.ca, schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic compat_sys_ustat

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:41:05AM +0100, 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>
> 

Interesting we've been missing this without noticing...

Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
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