This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hostfs: Use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: hostfs-use-kasprintf-instead-of-fixed-buffer-formatt.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0dcc55e8282fb5a59955bb4569053b161e76241d Author: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 20 15:07:35 2020 +0200 hostfs: Use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting [ Upstream commit b58c4e96192ee7c47d5c67853b1557306cfa0e7f ] Improve readability and maintainability by replacing a hardcoded string allocation and formatting by the use of the kasprintf() helper. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c index 5a7eb0c79839..4f5d857f6ecb 100644 --- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c +++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c @@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ static char *inode_name(struct inode *ino) static char *follow_link(char *link) { - int len, n; char *name, *resolved, *end; + int n; name = __getname(); if (!name) { @@ -164,15 +164,13 @@ static char *follow_link(char *link) return name; *(end + 1) = '\0'; - len = strlen(link) + strlen(name) + 1; - resolved = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + resolved = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%s", link, name); if (resolved == NULL) { n = -ENOMEM; goto out_free; } - sprintf(resolved, "%s%s", link, name); __putname(name); kfree(link); return resolved; @@ -918,18 +916,16 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct super_block *sb, void *d, int silent) sb->s_d_op = &simple_dentry_operations; sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE; - /* NULL is printed as <NULL> by sprintf: avoid that. */ + /* NULL is printed as '(null)' by printf(): avoid that. */ if (req_root == NULL) req_root = ""; err = -ENOMEM; sb->s_fs_info = host_root_path = - kmalloc(strlen(root_ino) + strlen(req_root) + 2, GFP_KERNEL); + kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s/%s", root_ino, req_root); if (host_root_path == NULL) goto out; - sprintf(host_root_path, "%s/%s", root_ino, req_root); - root_inode = new_inode(sb); if (!root_inode) goto out;