Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats et al more carefully

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>]

On Sep 06, 2008  01:06 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats more carefully
> 
> ext4 creates per-suberblock directory in /proc/ext4/ . Name used as
> basis is taken from bdevname, which, surprise, can contain slash.
> 
> However, proc while allowing to use proc_create("a/b", parent) form of
> PDE creation, assumes that parent/a was already created.
> 
> bdevname in question is 'cciss/c0d0p9', directory is not created and all
> this stuff goes directly into /proc (which is real bug).
> 
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -2792,6 +2792,15 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_per_dev_proc(struct super_block *sb)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  	bdevname(sb->s_bdev, devname);
> +	{
> +		char *p = devname;
> +
> +		while (*p != '\0') {
> +			if (*p == '/')
> +				*p = '!';
> +			p++;
> +		}
> +	}

Why not use strchr(), which is normally optimized assembly:

	char *p = devname;
	while ((p = strchr(p, '/'))
		*p = '_';

Using '!' as the separator makes it harder to use from shells I suspect,
so I'd suggest '_' instead.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.