[PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() and check failing allocation

- use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() + memcpy()
- return NULL if allocating ->mnt_devname failed
- mnt_devname should be const

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index c4fcf48..26380f5 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -112,9 +112,13 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char *name)
 		int err;
 
 		err = mnt_alloc_id(mnt);
-		if (err) {
-			kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
-			return NULL;
+		if (err)
+			goto out_free_cache;
+
+		if (name) {
+			mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
+				goto out_free_id;
 		}
 
 		atomic_set(&mnt->mnt_count, 1);
@@ -127,16 +131,14 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char *name)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave_list);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave);
 		atomic_set(&mnt->__mnt_writers, 0);
-		if (name) {
-			int size = strlen(name) + 1;
-			char *newname = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (newname) {
-				memcpy(newname, name, size);
-				mnt->mnt_devname = newname;
-			}
-		}
 	}
 	return mnt;
+
+out_free_id:
+	mnt_free_id(mnt);
+out_free_cache:
+	kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 /*