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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>2018-08-13 09:52:09 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-16 22:37:16 +0200
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kernfs: update comment about kernfs_path() return value
Now it returns the length of the full path or error code. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Fixes: 3abb1d90f5d9 ("kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()") Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernfs.h9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 814643f7ee52..5b36b1287a5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -477,10 +477,11 @@ static inline void kernfs_init(void) { }
* @buf: buffer to copy @kn's name into
* @buflen: size of @buf
*
- * Builds and returns the full path of @kn in @buf of @buflen bytes. The
- * path is built from the end of @buf so the returned pointer usually
- * doesn't match @buf. If @buf isn't long enough, @buf is nul terminated
- * and %NULL is returned.
+ * If @kn is NULL result will be "(null)".
+ *
+ * Returns the length of the full path. If the full length is equal to or
+ * greater than @buflen, @buf contains the truncated path with the trailing
+ * '\0'. On error, -errno is returned.
*/
static inline int kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen)
{