[linux-cifs-client] patch to fix an error during set security descriptor

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 00:27 -0600, Shirish Pargaonkar wrote:
> As per current implementation of chmod, cifs client send a security descriptor
> consisting of three aces in a dacl, owner, group, and other.
> There is bug i.e. the allocated size to build security descriptor
> utilizes the size
> obtained during get security descriptor.  This size can be smaller as the
> file may have less than three aces in which case the allocated size of
> security descriptor to set is inadequate.
> This fix allocates a minimum size needed to build the largest possible
> security descriptor containing three aces.

minimum size?  It sounds more like a maximum size.  Minimum would imply
that the size could get bigger.

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center