Re: [PATCH 3/8] bdi: add a ->dev_name field to struct backing_dev_info

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 08:40:20AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > This can have a sideeffect not only bdi->dev_name will be truncated to 64
> > chars (which generally doesn't matter) but possibly also kobject name will
> > be truncated in the same way.  Which may have user visible effects. E.g.
> > for fs/vboxsf 64 chars need not be enough. So shouldn't we rather do it the
> > other way around - i.e., let device_create_vargs() create the device name
> > and then copy to bdi->dev_name whatever fits?
> 
> How about using kvasprintf() instead of vsnprintf()?

That is what v1 did, see the thread in response to that on why it isn't
a good idea.