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[PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue

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We have a chek in there to make sure that the name won't overflow
task_struct.comm[], but it's triggering for scsi with lots of HBAs, only
scsi is using single-threaded workqueues which don't append the "/%d"
anyway.

All too hard.  Just kill the BUG_ON.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

[ kthread_create() uses vsnprintf() and limits the thing, so no
  actual overflow can actually happen regardless ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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James Bottomley 2005-08-10 11:29:15 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3462b92541
commit 6068674437
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@ -308,8 +308,6 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqueue(const char *name,
struct workqueue_struct *wq;
struct task_struct *p;
BUG_ON(strlen(name) > 10);
wq = kmalloc(sizeof(*wq), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!wq)
return NULL;