linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: add a line break for proc mb

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

Message-ID: <1454528313.7291.115.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:38:33 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@...el.com>, tytso@....edu,
	adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: add a line break for proc mb_groups display

On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 11:32 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:30:32AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:13 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 09:19:06PM +0800, Huaitong Han wrote:
> > > > This patch adds a line break for proc mb_groups display.
> > 
> > Using 2 lines for output might break any existing users.
> > 
> > Are there any?
> 
> It's a multiline file if you have more than one blockgroup; this just makes it
> so that you don't have to special-case BG 0.

And existing scripts might do that now and might fail
to do properly after this change.

> IOW: mb_groups scripts already had to parse multiple lines, and most likely any
> script parsing it would inject a newline after the header.

I've no dog in this fight really.  I just wanted to make
it clear that this could cause existing scripts to fail.

proc output is supposed to be unchanging except maybe
adding new fields to existing lines.

Your choice.

cheers, Joe