On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:58:03PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > 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" ? It'd be nice to have something--I've run across similar mistakes recently. > > See INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND() in: > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/intprops.h;hb=HEAD My lame attempt follows. It's simpler than Pádraig's but possibly also stupider. --b. commit 15e8c46104e0c1dd6a76d09b55563b6f83b61667 Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 15 17:41:47 2012 -0400 strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer I've seen a couple examples recently where we've gotten this wrong. Maybe something like this would help? Suggested-by: Jim Rees <rees@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index ffe0442..3674cf5 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv); extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2); extern int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res); +/* + * length of the decimal representation of an unsigned integer. Just an + * approximation, but it's right for types of size 1 to 26 bytes: + */ +#define base10len(i) (sizeof(i) * 24 / 10 + 1) + #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args); int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf); diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c index 2afd2a8..1dcd2b3 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ static ssize_t read_flush(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos, struct cache_detail *cd) { - char tbuf[20]; + char tbuf[base10len(unsigned long) + 2]; unsigned long p = *ppos; size_t len; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html