Re: [PATCH] procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int

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On 09/07/2012 01:48 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
On Fri,  7 Sep 2012 08:34:53 -0400
Jeff Layton<jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton<jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  fs/proc/base.c | 5 +++--
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 1b6c84c..58e801b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2758,7 +2758,8 @@ static void *proc_self_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
  	pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns);
  	char *name = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
  	if (tgid) {
-		name = __getname();
+		/* 10 for max length of an int in decimal + NULL terminator */
+		name = kmalloc(11, GFP_KERNEL);

		^^^^^
Bah...my mistake. This should be "12", since it's possible (though
unlikely) that this value could be negative. Is there a better way to
express "strlen of max representation of an int in decimal" ?

See INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND() in:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/intprops.h;hb=HEAD

cheers,
Pádraig.
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