[PATCH 1/2] cifs: Move string length definitions to uapi

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Thu Jul 25 12:18:57 MDT 2013


On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:04:14 -0400
Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:35:20 -0400
> > scott.lovenberg at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > From: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com>
> > > @@ -41,12 +42,8 @@
> > >  #define MAX_SES_INFO 2
> > >  #define MAX_TCON_INFO 4
> > >
> > > -#define MAX_TREE_SIZE (2 + MAX_SERVER_SIZE + 1 + MAX_SHARE_SIZE + 1)
> > > +#define MAX_TREE_SIZE (2 + MAX_SERVER_SIZE + 1 + CIFS_MAX_SHARE_LEN + 1)
> > >  #define MAX_SERVER_SIZE 15
> >                 ^^^^^^^
> > This looks wrong too. IIUC, that should be the max length of the
> > "server" portion of the field. The fact that MAX_TREE_SIZE is pretty
> > long is likely what papers over this...
> >
> > The userland helper uses NI_MAXHOST for this field, but that's not
> > defined in the kernel. Perhaps this should be given a name like
> > CIFS_NI_MAXHOST, and expanded to the same size as the mount helper uses
> > (1025)?
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> 
> I didn't touch that because I really wasn't sure either.  Wouldn't we
> want to make that 1024 and add 1 for the null terminator in-line to be
> consistent?  Other than that, I'm on board with that idea.
> 

Yeah, sounds reasonable.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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