Nikhil Kshirsagar <nkshirsa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Jes , > > Would it help to examine the core file ? It's present on the machine > and location specified in the bz comments . That's how I saw the data > structure that had the issue . Indeed there are other device names > where the name does not overflow since they are 32 bytes (which is why > I chose this value) or where the name *does* get truncated. However > this truncation does not seem to happen for de->d_name which is then > copied into dev->sys_name. > > As for allocating an appropriate size on the heap instead of a static > array it does make sense and I can correct the fix to do that but > there are lots of other device names which are static arrays. So which > ones do we change ? This is the tricky part, sys_name is used in a lot of places in different ways. Do you know if they have a /dev/oczpcie_11_0_ssd on the system, and if they do, how did that device get created? Cheers, Jes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html