[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] cifs: fix IPv6 address length check

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 15:46:21 GMT 2009


merged

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> For IPv6 the userspace mount helper sends an address in the "ip="
> option.  This check fails if the length is > 35 characters. I have no
> idea where the magic 35 character limit came from, but it's clearly not
> enough for IPv6. Fix it by making it use the INET6_ADDRSTRLEN #define.
>
> While we're at it, use the same #define for the address length in SPNEGO
> upcalls.




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Thanks,

Steve


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