Currently workqueue->name[] is of flexible length.  We want to use the
flexible field for something more useful and there isn't much benefit
in allowing arbitrary name length anyway.  Make it fixed len capping
at 24 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 57e6139..151ce49 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ enum {
         */
        RESCUER_NICE_LEVEL      = -20,
        HIGHPRI_NICE_LEVEL      = -20,
+
+       WQ_NAME_LEN             = 24,
 };
 
 /*
@@ -255,7 +257,7 @@ struct workqueue_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
        struct lockdep_map      lockdep_map;
 #endif
-       char                    name[];         /* I: workqueue name */
+       char                    name[WQ_NAME_LEN]; /* I: workqueue name */
 };
 
 static struct kmem_cache *pwq_cache;
@@ -3755,17 +3757,12 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const 
char *fmt,
                                               struct lock_class_key *key,
                                               const char *lock_name, ...)
 {
-       va_list args, args1;
+       va_list args;
        struct workqueue_struct *wq;
        struct pool_workqueue *pwq;
-       size_t namelen;
-
-       /* determine namelen, allocate wq and format name */
-       va_start(args, lock_name);
-       va_copy(args1, args);
-       namelen = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, args) + 1;
 
-       wq = kzalloc(sizeof(*wq) + namelen, GFP_KERNEL);
+       /* allocate wq and format name */
+       wq = kzalloc(sizeof(*wq), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!wq)
                return NULL;
 
@@ -3775,9 +3772,9 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char 
*fmt,
                        goto err_free_wq;
        }
 
-       vsnprintf(wq->name, namelen, fmt, args1);
+       va_start(args, lock_name);
+       vsnprintf(wq->name, sizeof(wq->name), fmt, args);
        va_end(args);
-       va_end(args1);
 
        max_active = max_active ?: WQ_DFL_ACTIVE;
        max_active = wq_clamp_max_active(max_active, flags, wq->name);
-- 
1.8.1.4

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