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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2011-07-27 21:47:03 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-27 12:50:45 -0700
commit09570f914914d2beb0db29c5a9c7344934f2fa8c (patch)
treea93900db5e607887aca3ef2cecc2426abe007d87 /fs/proc/proc_net.c
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proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::name a terminal array rather than a pointer
Since __proc_create() appends the name it is given to the end of the PDE structure that it allocates, there isn't a need to store a name pointer. Instead we can just replace the name pointer with a terminal char array of _unspecified_ length. The compiler will simply append the string to statically defined variables of PDE type overlapping any hole at the end of the structure and, unlike specifying an explicitly _zero_ length array, won't give a warning if you try to statically initialise it with a string of more than zero length. Also, whilst we're at it: (1) Move namelen to end just prior to name and reduce it to a single byte (name shouldn't be longer than NAME_MAX). (2) Move pde_unload_lock two places further on so that if it's four bytes in size on a 64-bit machine, it won't cause an unused hole in the PDE struct. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/proc_net.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_net.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_net.c b/fs/proc/proc_net.c
index 9020ac15baaa..f738024ccc8e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_net.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_net.c
@@ -197,15 +197,15 @@ static __net_init int proc_net_ns_init(struct net *net)
int err;
err = -ENOMEM;
- netd = kzalloc(sizeof(*netd), GFP_KERNEL);
+ netd = kzalloc(sizeof(*netd) + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!netd)
goto out;
netd->data = net;
netd->nlink = 2;
- netd->name = "net";
netd->namelen = 3;
netd->parent = &proc_root;
+ memcpy(netd->name, "net", 4);
err = -EEXIST;
net_statd = proc_net_mkdir(net, "stat", netd);