linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() and check failing allocation

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:18:15 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() and check failing allocation

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:16 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> [Li Zefan - Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 06:06:36PM +0800]
> | - use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() + memcpy()
> | - return NULL if allocating ->mnt_devname failed
> | - mnt_devname should be const
> | 
> | Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> | ---
> | 
> |   Andrew, please drop vfs-use-kstrdup.patch
> | 
> | ---
> 
> Thanks Li. I think Al will be fine with this version.
> 
> So if you needed:
> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

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