Re: [PATCHSET] kernfs, cgroup: make kernfs_path*() and cgroup_path*() behave in strlcpy() style

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:18:19AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 01:23:20AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > kernfs path formatting functions always return the length of full path
> > but the content of the output buffer is undefined when the length is
> > longer than the provided buffer.  Most cgroup path formatting
> > functions return the start of the output or NULL on errors including
> > overflow.  These inconsistent and rather peculiar behaviors developed
> > over time and make these functions unnecessarily difficult to use.
> > This patchset updates the formatting functions so that they all behave
> > in the style of strlcpy().
> > 
> > Greg, these changes are used by cgroup tracepoint additions and
> > shouldn't affect other users much.  Would it be okay to route these
> > through the cgroup tree?
> > 
> >  0001-kernfs-add-dummy-implementation-of-kernfs_path_from_.patch
> >  0002-kernfs-make-kernfs_path-behave-in-the-style-of-strlc.patch
> >  0003-kernfs-remove-kernfs_path_len.patch
> >  0004-cgroup-make-cgroup_path-and-friends-behave-in-the-st.patch
> > 
> > The patches are also available in the following git branch.
> > 
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git review-kernfs_path-strlcpy
> > 
> > diffstat follows.  Thanks.
> 
> It's fine with me if you take these yourself:
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Applied 1-4 to cgroup/for-4.9.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun