On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 02:59:53PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 14:41, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > with __u32 size for mnt_root and mnt_point > > > > > > Unnecessary if the strings are nul terminated. > > > > All ok by me so far but how does the kernel know the size of the buffer > > to copy into? Wouldn't it be better to allow userspace to specify that? > > I'm probably just missing something but I better ask. > > Because size of the buffer is given as the syscall argument. > > long statmount(u64 mnt_id, u64 mask, struct statmnt __user *buf, > size_t bufsize, unsigned int flags); > > If you are still hung up about this not being properly typed, how about this: I really just wasn't clear how exactly you envisioned this. Your proposal as is sounds good to me! I'm on board. I prefer the two offsets as that lets us avoid searching for null bytes. So please leave it as is! Thanks!
