RE: [PATCH 5.4 2/5] cifs: Get rid of kstrdup_const()'d paths

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David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Rishabh Bhatnagar
>> Sent: 23 June 2023 22:34
>> From: "Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)" <pc@xxxxxx>
>> 
>> commit 199c6bdfb04b71d88a7765e08285885fbca60df4 upstream.
>> 
>> The DFS cache API is mostly used with heap allocated strings.
>> 
> ...
>> -	ce->path = kstrdup_const(path, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	ce->path = kstrndup(path, strlen(path), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> That is entirely brain-dead.

Yep.  It's got fixed up later by

        8d7672235533 ("cifs: don't cargo-cult strndup()")



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