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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] DEBUGFS: Automatically create parents for debugfs files v2
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:22:56 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111213222256.GD2618@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323812733-7520-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 01:45:32PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
>  
> +/*
> + * Created parents stay around later. Sorry, but it shouldn't be a big issue.
> + */
> +static const char *create_parents(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
> +				  struct dentry **pp, int *ref)
> +{
> +	char fn[strlen(name) + 1];
> +	char *tail;
> +	char *s, *p;
> +	struct dentry *new_parent, *dentry, *old_parent = NULL;
> +
> +	strcpy(fn, name);
> +	tail = strrchr(fn, '/');
> +	if (!tail)
> +		return name;
> +	tail++;
> +

Hi Andi, is it possible to do say kstrdup or something instead of
variable-size array in fn[strlen(name) + 1] ? As far as I remember
we already had some warnings with them at least in perf land (or
trace land). Or I miss something?

	Cyrill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-13 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-13 21:45 [PATCH 1/3] DEBUGFS: Automatically create parents for debugfs files v2 Andi Kleen
2011-12-13 21:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] DEBUGFS: Add per cpu counters Andi Kleen
2011-12-13 22:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-13 22:56     ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-13 23:08       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-12-13 23:15         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-13 23:16         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-12-13 23:17       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-13 22:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2011-12-13 22:27   ` [PATCH 1/3] DEBUGFS: Automatically create parents for debugfs files v2 Andi Kleen
2011-12-13 23:03     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-12-13 23:11       ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-13 23:16         ` Thomas Gleixner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-02 20:02 Andi Kleen
2011-12-12 22:19 ` Greg KH

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