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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2008-04-10 12:19:27 +1000
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-04-18 11:51:36 +1000
commitb6ddc4e6fed9c6f4adb273c8b36e1731f90ec17e (patch)
treed12b3d657b9fac6f5c33b271a093be25a9fa2284 /fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
parent34a622b2e1c8e11c8990184634f101c1aad42fec (diff)
[XFS] Don't validate symlink target component length
This target component validation is not POSIX conformant and it is not done by any other Linux filesystem so remove it from XFS. SGI-PV: 980080 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30776a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c25
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
index 3418c94bcf1..d46f24c6849 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
@@ -3105,31 +3105,6 @@ xfs_symlink(
pathlen = strlen(target_path);
if (pathlen >= MAXPATHLEN) /* total string too long */
return XFS_ERROR(ENAMETOOLONG);
- if (pathlen >= MAXNAMELEN) { /* is any component too long? */
- int len, total;
- char *path;
-
- for (total = 0, path = target_path; total < pathlen;) {
- /*
- * Skip any slashes.
- */
- while(*path == '/') {
- total++;
- path++;
- }
-
- /*
- * Count up to the next slash or end of path.
- * Error out if the component is bigger than MAXNAMELEN.
- */
- for(len = 0; *path != '/' && total < pathlen;total++, path++) {
- if (++len >= MAXNAMELEN) {
- error = ENAMETOOLONG;
- return error;
- }
- }
- }
- }
if (DM_EVENT_ENABLED(dp, DM_EVENT_SYMLINK)) {
error = XFS_SEND_NAMESP(mp, DM_EVENT_SYMLINK, dp,