[PATCH] procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int

[Jeff Layton]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/proc/base.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 1b6c84c..58e801b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2758,7 +2758,8 @@ static void *proc_self_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 	pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns);
 	char *name = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 	if (tgid) {
-		name = __getname();
+		/* 10 for max length of an int in decimal + NULL terminator */
+		name = kmalloc(11, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!name)
 			name = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		else
@@ -2773,7 +2774,7 @@ static void proc_self_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd,
 {
 	char *s = nd_get_link(nd);
 	if (!IS_ERR(s))
-		__putname(s);
+		kfree(s);
 }
 
 static const struct inode_operations proc_self_inode_operations = {
-- 
1.7.11.4

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