On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:32:36AM +0100, Gerhard Heift wrote:
If any future version of the ioctl uses the now unused fields, it also
has to increase the version.
Just for me to learn: If we have to increase the version, why do we
have the unused fields anyway? We could expand the struct
To prevent unexpectet values in the unused fields of the search key fail early.
Otherwise future extensions would break the behavior of the search if current
implementations in userspace set them to values other than zero.
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Heift gerh...@heift.name
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fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 3
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 02:28:28PM +0100, Gerhard Heift wrote:
To prevent unexpectet values in the unused fields of the search key fail
early.
Otherwise future extensions would break the behavior of the search if current
implementations in userspace set them to values other than zero.
Am Montag, 27. Januar 2014, 14:28:28 schrieb Gerhard Heift:
To prevent unexpectet values in the unused fields of the search key fail
unexpected
early. Otherwise future extensions would break the behavior of the search
if current implementations in userspace set them to values other than zero.
2014-01-27 David Sterba dste...@suse.cz:
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 02:28:28PM +0100, Gerhard Heift wrote:
To prevent unexpectet values in the unused fields of the search key fail
early.
Otherwise future extensions would break the behavior of the search if current
implementations in userspace
