From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: viro@ZinIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Remove retry loop in ecryptfs_readdir()
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:34:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902153420.ac015747.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902222836.GD10186@halcrowt61p.austin.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:28:36 -0500
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> The retry block in ecryptfs_readdir() has been in the eCryptfs code
> base for a while, apparently for no good reason. This loop could
> potentially run without terminating. This patch removes the loop,
> instead erroring out if vfs_readdir() on the lower file fails.
I assumed this was for-2.6.28.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 22:35 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-02 22:28 Michael Halcrow
2008-09-02 22:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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