[PATCH] pstore/ram: Avoid needless alloc during header write

[Kees Cook]

Since the header is a fixed small maximum size, just use a stack variable
to avoid memory allocation in the write path.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
---
 fs/pstore/ram.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index ec0e1da0596a..c5c685589e36 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -345,19 +345,15 @@ static ssize_t ramoops_pstore_read(struct pstore_record 
*record)
 static size_t ramoops_write_kmsg_hdr(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz,
                                     struct pstore_record *record)
 {
-       char *hdr;
+       char hdr[36]; /* "===="(4), %lld(20), "."(1), %06lu(6), "-%c\n"(3) */
        size_t len;
 
-       hdr = kasprintf(GFP_ATOMIC, RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR "%lld.%06lu-%c\n",
+       len = scnprintf(hdr, sizeof(hdr),
+               RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR "%lld.%06lu-%c\n",
                (time64_t)record->time.tv_sec,
                record->time.tv_nsec / 1000,
                record->compressed ? 'C' : 'D');
-       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!hdr))
-               return 0;
-
-       len = strlen(hdr);
        persistent_ram_write(prz, hdr, len);
-       kfree(hdr);
 
        return len;
 }
-- 
2.17.1


-- 
Kees Cook