RE: [PATCH 5.4 2/5] cifs: Get rid of kstrdup_const()'d paths

From: Rishabh Bhatnagar

Sent: 23 June 2023 22:34 From: "Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)" pc@cjr.nz

commit 199c6bdfb04b71d88a7765e08285885fbca60df4 upstream.

The DFS cache API is mostly used with heap allocated strings.

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• ce->path = kstrdup_const(path, GFP_KERNEL);

• ce->path = kstrndup(path, strlen(path), GFP_KERNEL);

That is entirely brain-dead.

David

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