Currently workqueue->name[] is of flexible length. We want to use the flexible field for something more useful and there isn't much benefit in allowing arbitrary name length anyway. Make it fixed len capping at 24 bytes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 19 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 65f200c..23c9099 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ enum { */ RESCUER_NICE_LEVEL = -20, HIGHPRI_NICE_LEVEL = -20, + + WQ_NAME_LEN = 24, }; /* @@ -252,7 +254,7 @@ struct workqueue_struct { #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP struct lockdep_map lockdep_map; #endif - char name[]; /* I: workqueue name */ + char name[WQ_NAME_LEN]; /* I: workqueue name */ }; static struct kmem_cache *pwq_cache; @@ -3752,17 +3754,12 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, struct lock_class_key *key, const char *lock_name, ...) { - va_list args, args1; + va_list args; struct workqueue_struct *wq; struct pool_workqueue *pwq; - size_t namelen; - - /* determine namelen, allocate wq and format name */ - va_start(args, lock_name); - va_copy(args1, args); - namelen = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, args) + 1; - wq = kzalloc(sizeof(*wq) + namelen, GFP_KERNEL); + /* allocate wq and format name */ + wq = kzalloc(sizeof(*wq), GFP_KERNEL); if (!wq) return NULL; @@ -3772,9 +3769,9 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, goto err_free_wq; } - vsnprintf(wq->name, namelen, fmt, args1); + va_start(args, lock_name); + vsnprintf(wq->name, sizeof(wq->name), fmt, args); va_end(args); - va_end(args1); max_active = max_active ?: WQ_DFL_ACTIVE; max_active = wq_clamp_max_active(max_active, flags, wq->name); -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html