linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc6-mm1] kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:58:55 +0100
From:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc6-mm1] kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space
 for trailing '\0'

Tejun Heo wrote:
> KSYM_NAME_LEN is peculiar in that it does not include the space for
> the trailing '\0', forcing all users to use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 when
> allocating buffer.  This is nonsense and error-prone.  Moreover, when
> the caller forgets that it's very likely to subtly bite back by
> corrupting the stack because the last position of the buffer is always
> cleared to zero.
> 
> This patch increments KSYM_NAME_LEN by one and updates code
> accordingly.

Nice work.

I've been wanting to do that cleanup myself for a long time ;)

Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>

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