linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uml: fix hostfs lookup

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Message-Id: <E1OlmgL-0006zB-3l@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:44:09 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, jkmalinen@...il.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml: fix hostfs lookup

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:39:49PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Oops, sorry.  Off-by-one bug crept in there.
> 
> It's already fixed in the queue (see #untested in vfs-2.6)

Your fix is still wrong for the pathological case of len == p - name,
that's why I opted not to use strlcpy.

Thanks,
Miklos

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