linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: move super block magic number to magic.h

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:13:07 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: move super block magic number to magic.h

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> The overlayfs file system is not recognized by programs
> like tail because the magic number is not in standard header location.
>
> Move it so that the value will propagate on for the GNU library
> and utilities. Needs to go in the fstatfs manual page as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Thanks, pushed to

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-next

Miklos
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/