Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] fs: rework getname_kernel to handle up to PATH_MAX sized filenames

Guenter Roeck
2015-01-22T16:57:28Z

On 01/22/2015 07:53 AM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/01/21, Paul Moore wrote:
>> In preparation for expanded use in the kernel, make getname_kernel()
>> more useful by allowing it to handle any legal filename length.
>>
>> Thanks to Guenter Roeck for his suggestion to substitute memcpy() for
>> strlcpy().
>>
>> CC: linux@roeck-us.net
>> CC: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
>> CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
>
> Noted memcpy() difference (I assume to avoid races).
>

It is more efficient to use memcpy if the string length is known.

Guenter