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cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the style of strlcpy()
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:23:44 +0000 (11:23 -0400)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:23:44 +0000 (11:23 -0400)
commit4c737b41de7f4eef2a593803bad1b918dd718b10
tree0314164921eaf014c466bc58a57bf21973a63385
parentbb09c8634b1e484b8840fb2384d55739bfcb68bd
cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the style of strlcpy()

cgroup_path() and friends used to format the path from the end and
thus the resulting path usually didn't start at the start of the
passed in buffer.  Also, when the buffer was too small, the partial
result was truncated from the head rather than tail and there was no
way to tell how long the full path would be.  These make the functions
less robust and more awkward to use.

With recent updates to kernfs_path(), cgroup_path() and friends can be
made to behave in strlcpy() style.

* cgroup_path(), cgroup_path_ns[_locked]() and task_cgroup_path() now
  always return the length of the full path.  If buffer is too small,
  it contains nul terminated truncated output.

* All users updated accordingly.

v2: cgroup_path() usage in kernel/sched/debug.c converted.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c
kernel/cpuset.c
kernel/sched/debug.c