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From: Torin Carey <torin@tcarey.uk>
To: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, christian.brauner@ubuntu.com,
	keescook@chromium.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	jamorris@linux.microsoft.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: use kmalloc instead of __get_free_page() to alloc path buffer
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:03:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfADJHY7Fy8S9Tl4@kappa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220123100837.GA1491@haolee.io>

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 10:08:37AM +0000, Hao Lee wrote:
> It's not a standard approach that use __get_free_page() to alloc path
> buffer directly. We'd better use kmalloc and PATH_MAX.

If we're allocating PATH_MAX sized buffers for names, wouldn't it be
suitable to use the name slab names_cachep declared in
include/linux/fs.h using __getname() and __putname()?

Best,
Torin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-25 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-23 10:08 [PATCH] proc: use kmalloc instead of __get_free_page() to alloc path buffer Hao Lee
2022-01-23 13:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2022-01-23 13:58   ` [PATCH v2] proc: alloc PATH_MAX bytes for /proc/${pid}/fd/ symlinks Alexey Dobriyan
2022-01-23 14:23     ` Hao Lee
2022-01-25 14:03 ` Torin Carey [this message]

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