linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup()

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:04:27 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup()

[Al Viro - Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 08:03:46AM +0100]
| 
[...]
| The right thing here is to consider failing allocation of ->mnt_devname
| as failure of the entire alloc.
| 

Al, what about the patch below? I'm not sure if Li's version already
in someone tree so it's from-the-scratch. If this ok, i think Li could
update his version and resend.

		- Cyrill -
---

Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/namespace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/namespace.c	2008-07-21 11:34:37.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/fs/namespace.c	2008-07-21 12:00:01.000000000 +0400
@@ -112,9 +112,13 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char
 		int err;
 
 		err = mnt_alloc_id(mnt);
-		if (err) {
-			kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
-			return NULL;
+		if (err)
+			goto err;
+
+		if (name) {
+			mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
+				goto err;
 		}
 
 		atomic_set(&mnt->mnt_count, 1);
@@ -127,16 +131,12 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave_list);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave);
 		atomic_set(&mnt->__mnt_writers, 0);
-		if (name) {
-			int size = strlen(name) + 1;
-			char *newname = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (newname) {
-				memcpy(newname, name, size);
-				mnt->mnt_devname = newname;
-			}
-		}
 	}
 	return mnt;
+
+err:
+	kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 /*
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