Padding byte in cifs readx response

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:17:15AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:30:52PM -0700, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 04:10:34PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > We just overflowed the 16MB nbss packet. I've attached one
> > > question, a few R-Bs and a possible fix.
> > 
> > Thanks. The fix looks good, i included it in the patch series, see
> > attachment.
> > > 
> > > VL: I think at least in the aio case the padding byte is left uninitialized.
> > > Can you check that? Thanks!
> > 
> > Yes, i missed that. struct aio_extra is allocated and zeroed, but not
> > the following data buffer. I added the explicit initialization of the
> > padding byte.
> 
> LGTM Christof thanks ! Pushed.

Wait please!

I'm still dubious about the new_size += 1 in
smb_splice_chain. Can you explain that? I'm really nervous
about that piece of the code, &x is really from hell.

Volker

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