On 4 April 2011 11:13, Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When a test from the Linux Test Project [1] with 2.6.39-rc1 while > trying to reproduce another fileystem issue, I quickly hit the 8 > nested link limit [2]: > BUG_ON(nd->depth >= MAX_NESTED_LINKS) > > It seems a mutually exclusive condition to have such a technical limit > in-kernel and a test in LTP which triggers that, unless there is a bug > of course. > > Though 8 seems reasonable in most cases, it looks like an artificial > and not technical limit which feels more broken - perhaps a WARN_ON or > higher limit before BUG() is called makes sense? Re-reading everything, nested here is actually recursively nested, not consecutively nested, so will never succeed, so we expect this from the LTP test. -- Daniel J Blueman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
