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

[simo]

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.

Good catch!

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <ssorce at redhat.com>