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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> | 2008-04-10 12:19:27 +1000 |
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| committer | Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com> | 2008-04-18 11:51:36 +1000 |
| commit | b6ddc4e6fed9c6f4adb273c8b36e1731f90ec17e (patch) | |
| tree | d12b3d657b9fac6f5c33b271a093be25a9fa2284 /fs | |
| parent | 34a622b2e1c8e11c8990184634f101c1aad42fec (diff) | |
| download | linux-b6ddc4e6fed9c6f4adb273c8b36e1731f90ec17e.tar.bz2 | |
[XFS] Don't validate symlink target component length
This target component validation is not POSIX conformant and it is not
done by any other Linux filesystem so remove it from XFS.
SGI-PV: 980080
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30776a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c index 3418c94bcf17..d46f24c68498 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c @@ -3105,31 +3105,6 @@ xfs_symlink( pathlen = strlen(target_path); if (pathlen >= MAXPATHLEN) /* total string too long */ return XFS_ERROR(ENAMETOOLONG); - if (pathlen >= MAXNAMELEN) { /* is any component too long? */ - int len, total; - char *path; - - for (total = 0, path = target_path; total < pathlen;) { - /* - * Skip any slashes. - */ - while(*path == '/') { - total++; - path++; - } - - /* - * Count up to the next slash or end of path. - * Error out if the component is bigger than MAXNAMELEN. - */ - for(len = 0; *path != '/' && total < pathlen;total++, path++) { - if (++len >= MAXNAMELEN) { - error = ENAMETOOLONG; - return error; - } - } - } - } if (DM_EVENT_ENABLED(dp, DM_EVENT_SYMLINK)) { error = XFS_SEND_NAMESP(mp, DM_EVENT_SYMLINK, dp, |