Re: [PATCH][next] um: Malloc just enough space for fitting pid file

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Sat Oct 26 2024 - 03:45:08 EST


On Sat, 2024-10-26 at 16:46 +1300, Paulo Miguel Almeida wrote:
> umid is already generated during make_umid_init __initcall so there is
> no need to allocate UMID_LEN bytes to accommodate the max possible name
> for the umid segment of the filepath
>
> This patch replaces UMID_LEN occurences in which it's redundant

OK, I guess that's maybe all true, but can you say _why_ in the commit
log?

johannes