linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] ocfs2 symlink walk fix

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Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:07:51 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <boel.becker@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>, tao.ma@...cle.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 symlink walk fix

Linus, et al,
	We've discovered that ocfs2 can walk off the end reading a fast
symlink if the NUL got corrupted on disk.  It's a simple
strlen()->strnlen() fix, but I think it should go sooner rather than
later.
	Please pull.

Joel

The following changes since commit 4193d9163582b05e33aca3392e46649e5c3da8d1:

  Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs (2010-09-29 14:58:11 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2.git fixes

Joel Becker (1):
      ocfs2: Don't walk off the end of fast symlinks.

 fs/ocfs2/symlink.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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