Re: [PATCH] procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:44:16 -0400
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:58:03PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > On 09/07/2012 01:48 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > >On Fri,  7 Sep 2012 08:34:53 -0400
> > >Jeff Layton<jlayton@redhat.com>  wrote:
> > >
> > >>Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton<jlayton@redhat.com>
> > >>---
> > >>  fs/proc/base.c | 5 +++--
> > >>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >>diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> > >>index 1b6c84c..58e801b 100644
> > >>--- a/fs/proc/base.c
> > >>+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> > >>@@ -2758,7 +2758,8 @@ static void *proc_self_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
> > >>  	pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns);
> > >>  	char *name = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> > >>  	if (tgid) {
> > >>-		name = __getname();
> > >>+		/* 10 for max length of an int in decimal + NULL terminator */
> > >>+		name = kmalloc(11, GFP_KERNEL);
> > >
> > >		^^^^^
> > >Bah...my mistake. This should be "12", since it's possible (though
> > >unlikely) that this value could be negative. Is there a better way to
> > >express "strlen of max representation of an int in decimal" ?
> 
> It'd be nice to have something--I've run across similar mistakes
> recently.
> 
> > 
> > See INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND() in:
> > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/intprops.h;hb=HEAD
> 
> My lame attempt follows.  It's simpler than Pádraig's but possibly also
> stupider.
> 
> --b.
> 
> commit 15e8c46104e0c1dd6a76d09b55563b6f83b61667
> Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 15 17:41:47 2012 -0400
> 
>     strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer
>     
>     I've seen a couple examples recently where we've gotten this wrong.
>     Maybe something like this would help?
>     
>     Suggested-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
>     Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
> index ffe0442..3674cf5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv);
>  extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2);
>  extern int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
>  
> +/*
> + * length of the decimal representation of an unsigned integer.  Just an
> + * approximation, but it's right for types of size 1 to 26 bytes:
> + */
> +#define base10len(i) (sizeof(i) * 24 / 10 + 1)
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
>  int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
>  int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf);
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> index 2afd2a8..1dcd2b3 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ static ssize_t read_flush(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
>  			  size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
>  			  struct cache_detail *cd)
>  {
> -	char tbuf[20];
> +	char tbuf[base10len(unsigned long) + 2];
>  	unsigned long p = *ppos;
>  	size_t len;
>  

Thanks Bruce and Pádraig...

Bruce, are you planning to push that patch for 3.7? If so, I'll base
mine on top of yours...

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>