The refactor seemed to trigger dan.carpenter@oracle.com's
static tester to find a possible double-free in the code.
While designing the fix we saw a condition under which the
buffer being freed could also be overflowed.
We also realized how to rebuild the related debugfs file's
"contents" (a string) without deleting and re-creating the file.
This fix should eliminate the possible double-free, the
potential overflow and improve code readability.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-4.9-rc4-ofs-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux
Pull orangefs fix from Mike Marshall:
"We recently refactored the Orangefs debugfs code. The refactor seemed
to trigger dan.carpenter@oracle.com's static tester to find a possible
double-free in the code.
While designing the fix we saw a condition under which the buffer
being freed could also be overflowed.
We also realized how to rebuild the related debugfs file's "contents"
(a string) without deleting and re-creating the file.
This fix should eliminate the possible double-free, the potential
overflow and improve code readability"
* tag 'for-linus-4.9-rc4-ofs-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux:
orangefs: clean up debugfs
3c6106da74