On Tuesday 27 February 2018 03:45 PM, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tuesday 27 February 2018 03:32 PM, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote: >>> From: Rolf Evers-Fischer <rolf.evers.fischer@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> This commit replaces allocating and freeing the intermediate >>> 'buf'/'func_name' with a combination of 'kstrndup()' and 'len'. >>> >>> 'len' is the required length of 'epf->name'. >>> 'epf->name' should be either the first part of 'name' preceding the '.' >>> or the complete 'name', if there is no '.' in the name. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Rolf Evers-Fischer <rolf.evers.fischer@xxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c | 22 ++++------------------ >>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c >>> index 766ce1dca2ec..1f2506f32bb9 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c >>> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c >>> @@ -200,8 +200,7 @@ struct pci_epf *pci_epf_create(const char *name) >>> int ret; >>> struct pci_epf *epf; >>> struct device *dev; >>> - char *func_name; >>> - char *buf; >>> + int len; >>> >>> epf = kzalloc(sizeof(*epf), GFP_KERNEL); >>> if (!epf) { >>> @@ -209,20 +208,11 @@ struct pci_epf *pci_epf_create(const char *name) >>> goto err_ret; >>> } >>> >>> - buf = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); >>> - if (!buf) { >>> - ret = -ENOMEM; >>> - goto free_epf; >>> - } >>> - >>> - func_name = buf; >>> - buf = strchrnul(buf, '.'); >>> - *buf = '\0'; >>> - >>> - epf->name = kstrdup(func_name, GFP_KERNEL); >>> + len = strchrnul(name, '.') - name; >>> + epf->name = kstrndup(name, len, GFP_KERNEL); >> >> shouldn't the string end with '\0'? >> > > I agree, it should end with '\0', but fortunately the 'kstrndup()' > function already adds it for us, see mm/util.c, line 100: > (...) > memcpy(buf, s, len); > buf[len] = '\0'; > (...) oh okay. missed that.. Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> > > Kind regards > Rolf >