From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, johannes.berg@intel.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
j@w1.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: don't use input buffer of __dev_alloc_name() as a scratch space
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:15:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTJTKN5wzf4lWRfk@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231020011856.3244410-2-kuba@kernel.org>
Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 03:18:51AM CEST, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>Callers of __dev_alloc_name() want to pass dev->name as
>the output buffer. Make __dev_alloc_name() not clobber
>that buffer on failure, and remove the workarounds
>in callers.
>
>dev_alloc_name_ns() is now completely unnecessary.
>
>The extra strscpy() added here will be gone by the end
>of the patch series.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-20 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-20 1:18 [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: deduplicate netdev name allocation Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: don't use input buffer of __dev_alloc_name() as a scratch space Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:15 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: make dev_alloc_name() call dev_prep_valid_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 19:01 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-21 7:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: reduce indentation of __dev_alloc_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:26 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: trust the bitmap in __dev_alloc_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:38 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 19:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-21 7:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: remove dev_valid_name() check from __dev_alloc_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: remove else after return in dev_prep_valid_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:45 ` Jiri Pirko
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