From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH] symlink nesting level change
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 04:08:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060503030849.GZ27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3966u$dje$1@terminus.zytor.com>
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:57:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <44580CF2.7070602@tlinx.org>
> By author: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > Is this what you are looking for?
> > include/linux/namei.h MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5
> > (used in fs/namei.c, where comment claims MAX_NESTING is equal to 8)
>
> Wonder if it would make sense to make this a sysctl...
No. It's way past time to bump it to 8. Everyone had been warned - for
months now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
----
--- a/include/linux/namei.h 2006-03-31 20:08:42.000000000 -0500
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h 2006-05-02 23:06:46.000000000 -0400
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
struct file *file;
};
-enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5 };
+enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 8 };
struct nameidata {
struct dentry *dentry;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-03 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-02 18:05 Too many levels of symbolic links Brian D. McGrew
2006-05-03 1:52 ` Linda Walsh
2006-05-03 2:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-03 3:08 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-05-04 1:35 ` [PATCH] symlink nesting level change Andrew Morton
2006-05-04 6:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-04 7:19 ` Al Viro
2006-07-13 18:35 ` Tim Pepper
2006-07-13 21:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-17 20:58 ` Too many levels of symbolic links Tim Pepper
2006-05-18 19:20 ` Tim Pepper
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