Re: [PATCH 2/4] XFS: Return case-insensitive match for dentry cache

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:07:01PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
>> What about just using kmalloc here?  We know the length of the name
>> anyway, so there is no point of allocating the maximum possible size.
>
> Not with the CI/NLS, the length could be different.

Well, even then we know the length to allocate because it needs to
be passed up in the nls_name.  For the utf8 case the allocated space
for the string might just be different from the number of characters.