Re: [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow

[Assar]

Peter Staubach <staubach@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> This code appears to assume that rcvbuf->page_base is zero here, but then
> uses rcvbuf->page_base when calculating where to place the null byte.  It
> seems to me that it should either use rcvbuf->page_base in both
> calculations or neither.

The meaning of page_len and page_base are not totally clear to me.  Is
it the case that the data starts at offset page_base and there is
page_len bytes of it.  If that's the case, I think the code is doing
the right thing.
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