On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 14:54 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 06:11:09PM -0800, Brian D. Behlendorf wrote: > > Add an extra byte to EXT2_NAME_LEN in the static allocation for the > > required trailing null. This allows filenames up to the maximum > > length of EXT2_NAME_LEN withover an overrun. > > > > Coverity ID: 11: Overrun Static > > > > - thislen = ((dirent->name_len & 0xFF) < EXT2_NAME_LEN) ? > > + thislen = ((dirent->name_len & 0xFF) <= EXT2_NAME_LEN) ? > > (dirent->name_len & 0xFF) : EXT2_NAME_LEN; > > This change is largely meaningless/unnecessary, since if > *dirent->name_len & 0xFF) is equal to EXT2_NAME_LEN it doesn't matter > which path is chosen; was there a reason for the change. #define EXT2_NAME_LEN 255 How about this? thislen = dirent->name_len & 0xFF; -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html