[merged] proc-alloc-path_max-bytes-for-proc-pid-fd-symlinks.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged] proc-alloc-path_max-bytes-for-proc-pid-fd-symlinks.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: proc: alloc PATH_MAX bytes for /proc/${pid}/fd/ symlinks
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     proc-alloc-path_max-bytes-for-proc-pid-fd-symlinks.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@gmail.com>
Subject: proc: alloc PATH_MAX bytes for /proc/${pid}/fd/ symlinks

It's not a standard approach that use __get_free_page() to alloc path
buffer directly.  We'd better use kmalloc and PATH_MAX.

	PAGE_SIZE is different on different archs. An unlinked file
	with very long canonical pathname will readlink differently
	because "(deleted)" eats into a buffer.	--adobriyan

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unneeded cast]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Ye1fCxyZZ0I5lgOL@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/proc/base.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-alloc-path_max-bytes-for-proc-pid-fd-symlinks
+++ a/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1764,25 +1764,25 @@ out:
 
 static int do_proc_readlink(struct path *path, char __user *buffer, int buflen)
 {
-	char *tmp = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	char *tmp = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
 	char *pathname;
 	int len;
 
 	if (!tmp)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	pathname = d_path(path, tmp, PAGE_SIZE);
+	pathname = d_path(path, tmp, PATH_MAX);
 	len = PTR_ERR(pathname);
 	if (IS_ERR(pathname))
 		goto out;
-	len = tmp + PAGE_SIZE - 1 - pathname;
+	len = tmp + PATH_MAX - 1 - pathname;
 
 	if (len > buflen)
 		len = buflen;
 	if (copy_to_user(buffer, pathname, len))
 		len = -EFAULT;
  out:
-	free_page((unsigned long)tmp);
+	kfree(tmp);
 	return len;
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from haolee.swjtu@gmail.com are