devname is automatic variable, so it may not contain 0 at the last position. Reported-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/freefall.c b/Documentation/laptops/freefall.c index aab2ff0..93a7ebf 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/freefall.c +++ b/Documentation/laptops/freefall.c @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ static const char app_name[] = "FREE FALL"; static int set_unload_heads_path(char *device) { - char devname[64]; + /* static for zero termination */ + static char devname[64]; if (strlen(device) <= 5 || strncmp(device, "/dev/", 5) != 0) return -EINVAL; -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html