On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 07:30:06PM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote: > Also, the uuid shouldn't be treated as NULL tailed string. > 142 struct ocfs2_control_message_down { > 143 char tag[OCFS2_CONTROL_MESSAGE_OP_LEN]; > 144 char space1; > 145 char uuid[OCFS2_TEXT_UUID_LEN]; > 146 char space2; The space1 and space2 characters are NULL terminators: >From ocfs2_control_do_down_msg(): msg->space1 = msg->space2 = msg->newline = '\0'; I would have thought it had to be a "packed" struct, but it works because there are only chars in that struct. So that code is fine. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html