linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] proc/meminfo: introduce extra meminfo

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Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:25:09 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@...sung.com>, adobriyan@...il.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, labbott@...hat.com,
        sumit.semwal@...aro.org, minchan@...nel.org, ngupta@...are.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jaewon31.kim@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] proc/meminfo: introduce extra meminfo

On (20/03/11 15:18), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/03/11 12:44), Jaewon Kim wrote:
> [..]
> > +#define NAME_SIZE      15
> > +#define NAME_BUF_SIZE  (NAME_SIZE + 2) /* ':' and '\0' */
> > +
> > +struct extra_meminfo {
> > +	struct list_head list;
> > +	atomic_long_t *val;
> > +	int shift_for_page;
> > +	char name[NAME_BUF_SIZE];
> > +	char name_pad[NAME_BUF_SIZE];
> > +};
> > +
> > +int register_extra_meminfo(atomic_long_t *val, int shift, const char *name)
> > +{
> > +	struct extra_meminfo *meminfo, *memtemp;
> > +	int len;
> > +	int error = 0;
> > +
> > +	meminfo = kzalloc(sizeof(*meminfo), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!meminfo) {
> > +		error = -ENOMEM;
> > +		goto out;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	meminfo->val = val;
> > +	meminfo->shift_for_page = shift;
> > +	strncpy(meminfo->name, name, NAME_SIZE);
> > +	len = strlen(meminfo->name);
> > +	meminfo->name[len] = ':';
> > +	strncpy(meminfo->name_pad, meminfo->name, NAME_BUF_SIZE);
> 
> What happens if there is no NULL byte among the first NAME_SIZE bytes
> of passed `name'?

Ah. The buffer size is NAME_BUF_SIZE, so should be fine.

	-ss