From 8f5be0ec23bb9ef3f96659c8dff1340b876600bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:52:09 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] kernfs: update comment about kernfs_path() return value
Git-commit: 8f5be0ec23bb9ef3f96659c8dff1340b876600bf
Patch-mainline: v4.20-rc1
References: bsc#1051510

Now it returns the length of the full path or error code.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Fixes: 3abb1d90f5d9 ("kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()")
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 include/linux/kernfs.h | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 814643f7ee52..5b36b1287a5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -477,10 +477,11 @@ static inline void kernfs_init(void) { }
  * @buf: buffer to copy @kn's name into
  * @buflen: size of @buf
  *
- * Builds and returns the full path of @kn in @buf of @buflen bytes.  The
- * path is built from the end of @buf so the returned pointer usually
- * doesn't match @buf.  If @buf isn't long enough, @buf is nul terminated
- * and %NULL is returned.
+ * If @kn is NULL result will be "(null)".
+ *
+ * Returns the length of the full path.  If the full length is equal to or
+ * greater than @buflen, @buf contains the truncated path with the trailing
+ * '\0'.  On error, -errno is returned.
  */
 static inline int kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 {
-- 
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