linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix the maximum cell name length

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Message-ID: <20250107-fundgrube-unpassend-106795b45fcf@brauner>
Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2025 15:55:44 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	syzbot <syzbot+7848fee1f1e5c53f912b@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
	marc.dionne@...istor.com,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix the maximum cell name length

On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:21:00 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> The kafs filesystem limits the maximum length of a cell to 256 bytes, but a
> problem occurs if someone actually does that: kafs tries to create a
> directory under /proc/net/afs/ with the name of the cell, but that fails
> with a warning:
> 
>         WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at fs/proc/generic.c:405
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] afs: Fix the maximum cell name length
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/8fd56ad6e7c9