linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: register_filesystem: Don't allow '\t' and '\n'.

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Message-ID: <20090409210350.GI26366@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:03:50 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: register_filesystem: Don't allow '\t' and '\n'.

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:47:26AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:08:43PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Which filesystem does that?  Shouldn't the filesystem get changed
> > instead?
> 
> Yeah, if at all we should reject a name with those characters.  But I
> feel that's a little over-engineering and we should just make sure no
> in-tree fs does stupid things like that by review.

Yes.
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