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-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/readdir.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index b7d9fb098840..9c9872be2c72 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
#include "overlayfs.h"
struct ovl_cache_entry {
- const char *name;
unsigned int len;
unsigned int type;
u64 ino;
bool is_whiteout;
struct list_head l_node;
struct rb_node node;
+ char name[];
};
struct ovl_dir_cache {
@@ -82,13 +82,12 @@ static struct ovl_cache_entry *ovl_cache_entry_new(const char *name, int len,
u64 ino, unsigned int d_type)
{
struct ovl_cache_entry *p;
+ size_t size = offsetof(struct ovl_cache_entry, name[len + 1]);
- p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p) + len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (p) {
- char *name_copy = (char *) (p + 1);
- memcpy(name_copy, name, len);
- name_copy[len] = '\0';
- p->name = name_copy;
+ memcpy(p->name, name, len);
+ p->name[len] = '\0';
p->len = len;
p->type = d_type;
p->ino = ino;