Subject: Re: PR/36225 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/27/2007 14:10:04
The following reply was made to PR kern/36225; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, njoly@pasteur.fr
Subject: Re: PR/36225 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:07:13 +0200

 On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:00:05PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/36225; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: David Laight <dsl@netbsd.org>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: PR/36225 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
 > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:58:37 +0000 (UTC)
 > 
 >  Module Name:	src
 >  Committed By:	dsl
 >  Date:		Thu Apr 26 20:58:37 UTC 2007
 >  
 >  Modified Files:
 >  	src/sys/kern: vfs_lookup.c
 >  
 >  Log Message:
 >  Be a little less over-zelous about converting ".." at the emulation root
 >  to the real root.  Rather that do the check inside lookup() - where it
 >  applies to to every ".." in a pathname, explicitly check the start of
 >  the caller-supplied buffers and any absolute symbolic links.
 >  Note that in the latter case the re-search from the real root is supressed.
 >  Should fix PR kern/36225
 
 Thanks for your prompt reply and fix. This problem is gone.
 
 -- 
 Nicolas Joly
 
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