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

["Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>]

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" ?

See INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND() in:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/intprops.h;hb=HEAD

cheers,
Pádraig.