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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-08-10 11:23:44 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-08-10 11:23:44 -0400
commit3abb1d90f5d930c6183534a624aa0158a71bc5eb (patch)
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kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()
kernfs_path*() functions always return the length of the full path but the path content is undefined if the length is larger than the provided buffer. This makes its behavior different from strlcpy() and requires error handling in all its users even when they don't care about truncation. In addition, the implementation can actully be simplified by making it behave properly in strlcpy() style. * Update kernfs_path_from_node_locked() to always fill up the buffer with path. If the buffer is not large enough, the output is truncated and terminated. * kernfs_path() no longer needs error handling. Make it a simple inline wrapper around kernfs_path_from_node(). * sysfs_warn_dup()'s use of kernfs_path() doesn't need error handling. Updated accordingly. * cgroup_path()'s use of kernfs_path() updated to retain the old behavior. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/dir.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 94374e435025..2b67bda2021b 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sysfs_symlink_target_lock);
void sysfs_warn_dup(struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name)
{
- char *buf, *path = NULL;
+ char *buf;
buf = kzalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
if (buf)
- path = kernfs_path(parent, buf, PATH_MAX);
+ kernfs_path(parent, buf, PATH_MAX);
WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '%s/%s'\n",
- path, name);
+ buf, name);
kfree(buf);
}