> Dave,
> 
> > The issue is that we are making an inquiry response from
> > container/RAID info. We could also have included a "pad" byte to
> > terminate the string, as the fib data is 512 bytes. My assumption is
> > that somehow back in the day, someone managed to get odd characters
> > into the name.
> >
> > Terminating the string early would truncate the name ...
> 
> So what do you propose as a fix?

We can add the pad byte to the struct, and terminate the string there. I'm out 
the office now, but Raghava or I will send up a patch ... That way, folks won't 
need to contemplate what appears to be a blatant out of bounds reference.

-Dave
> 
> --
> Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering

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