[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] File name length limit off by sizeof(struct ckpt_hdr)

Oren Laadan orenl at librato.com
Tue Oct 27 06:02:00 PDT 2009



Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl at librato.com):
>>
>> Matt Helsley wrote:
>>> Unlike the length passed into ckpt_write_obj_type, the maximum length passed
>>> to ckpt_read_buf_type must include the length of the struct ckpt_hdr.
>> IMHO, the right way to fix this is to change ckpt_read_obj_type().
>>
>> This will preserve symmetry between checkpoint and restart, and also
>> fix a similar problem in kernel/groups.c (MAX_GROUPINFO_SIZE).
>>
>> No need to resend - I'll fix already.
> 
> Oren: note with your version of the patch, restore_open_fname()
> does 'return len' giving me
> 
> checkpoint/files.c: In function 'restore_open_fname':
> checkpoint/files.c:457: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast

Oops ... that's silly. Fix queued.

Thanks,

Oren.

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