+ /* unfortunately, while we may have a path name to record with the
+ * inode, we can't always rely on the string lasting until the end of
+ * the syscall so we need to create our own copy, it may fail due to
+ * memory allocation issues, but we do our best */
+ if (name) {
+ /* we can't use getname_kernel() due to size limits */
+ size_t len = strlen(name->name) + 1;
+ struct filename *new = __getname();
+
+ if (unlikely(!new))
+ goto out;
+
+ if (len <= (PATH_MAX - sizeof(*new))) {
+ new->name = (char *)(new) + sizeof(*new);
+ new->separate = false;
+ } else if (len <= PATH_MAX) {
+ /* this looks odd, but is due to final_putname() */
+ struct filename *new2;
+
+ new2 = kmalloc(sizeof(*new2), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (unlikely(!new2)) {
+ __putname(new);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ new2->name = (char *)new;
+ new2->separate = true;
+ new = new2;
+ } else {
+ /* we should never get here, but let's be safe */
+ __putname(new);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ strlcpy((char *)new->name, name->name, len);
+ new->uptr = NULL;
+ new->aname = n;
+ n->name = new;
+ n->name_put = true;
+ }