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From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
Cc: Audra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
	jiangshanlai@gmail.com, hirokazu.yamauchi.hk@hitachi.com,
	ddouwsma@redhat.com, loberman@redhat.com, raquini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] workqueue.c: Increase workqueue name length
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:52:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZ8RtfKCmOQqj5KC@optiplex-fbsd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f0efed5-f9f3-4a5c-9fd4-a4837cada298@prevas.dk>

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 09:47:56PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 10/01/2024 21.29, Audra Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > @@ -4663,9 +4663,10 @@ struct workqueue_struct *alloc_workqueue(const char *fmt,
> >  					 unsigned int flags,
> >  					 int max_active, ...)
> >  {
> > -	va_list args;
> > +	va_list args, args_copy;
> >  	struct workqueue_struct *wq;
> >  	struct pool_workqueue *pwq;
> > +	int len;
> >  
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Unbound && max_active == 1 used to imply ordered, which is no longer
> > @@ -4692,6 +4693,13 @@ struct workqueue_struct *alloc_workqueue(const char *fmt,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	va_start(args, max_active);
> > +	va_copy(args_copy, args);
> > +	len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, args_copy);
> > +	WARN(len > WQ_NAME_LEN,
> > +		"workqueue: wq->name too long (%d). Truncated to WQ_NAME_LEN (%d)\n",
> > +		len, WQ_NAME_LEN);
> > +
> > +	va_end(args_copy);
> >  	vsnprintf(wq->name, sizeof(wq->name), fmt, args);
> 
> Eh, why not just _not_ throw away the return value from the existing
> vsnprintf() and do "len >= sizeof(wq->name)" to know if truncation
> happened? There's really no need need to do vsnprintf() twice. (And yes,
> you want >=, not >).
>

The extra vsnprintf call is required because the return of the existing 
vsnprintf() is going to be already capped by sizeof(wq->name).
 
> Oh, and definitely not WARN,  pr_warn() or pr_warn_once() please.
> 

Then you lose the ability to figure out what was trying to create the
wq with the inflated name. Also, the _once variants don't seem to do
good here, because alloc_workqueue() can be called by different 
drivers.

-- Rafael


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-10 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-15 19:39 [PATCH] workqueue.c: Change workqueue to accept variable length name Audra Mitchell
2023-12-21 21:39 ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]   ` <CA+bDH-v6T5vvyOwsphseHwgihdGQta7TZ9tOtt-Fnij92kvU6A@mail.gmail.com>
2023-12-22 17:53     ` Tejun Heo
2024-01-09 13:29       ` Audra Mitchell
2024-01-10 20:29 ` [PATCH v2] workqueue.c: Increase workqueue name length Audra Mitchell
2024-01-10 20:47   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 21:52     ` Rafael Aquini [this message]
2024-01-10 22:06       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 22:31         ` Rafael Aquini
2024-01-10 22:45           ` Rafael Aquini
2024-01-10 22:58             ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 22:52           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2024-01-10 23:08             ` Rafael Aquini
2024-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH v3] " Audra Mitchell
2024-01-16 18:31   ` Tejun Heo
2024-01-17 14:40     ` Audra Mitchell
2024-01-17 17:09       ` Tejun Heo
2024-01-19 20:30         ` Audra Mitchell
2024-01-19 23:44           ` Tejun Heo

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