From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS & long symlinks = stack overflow
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:53:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040515145306.GQ17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BP0BI-0000lo-09@localhost>
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:30:28PM +0200, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2004 16:00:21 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:
>
> > Lovely. The real limit imposed by client (apparently not enforced, though)
> > is PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 4 - 1. What are the protocol limits?
>
> None. An NFSv3 server can enforce an arbitrary limit on filename length,
> advertised via PATHCONF, though.
Lovely... How are other clients dealing with that? Put a reasonable
limit on the size and return an error if READLINK brings more than that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-15 14:53 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <1W7S5-3Am-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-15 14:30 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-05-15 14:53 ` viro [this message]
2004-05-15 17:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-15 20:19 ` Oleg Drokin
2004-05-16 4:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16 4:55 ` viro
2004-05-16 22:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-15 13:21 Oleg Drokin
2004-05-15 13:53 ` viro
2004-05-15 17:26 ` Trond Myklebust
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