On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:01:59 +0100, Martin Natano wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:31:00AM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote: > > > > I was concerned about old 4.2/4.3 filesystems having garbage in > > that location. It's not really an issue since we'll never really > > encounter such a file system that was not created by our own newfs > > (which will zero it on the disk). > > > > Since fs_maxsymlinklen should be ignored for the old inode format > > we could do something like this just to be safe. > > Yeah, I think that's a good idea; updated diff below.
Looks good to me. - todd