Hi Sakari, Thank you for the patch. On Tuesday 24 May 2016 15:48:02 Sakari Ailus wrote: > Recently it was decided that the API dealing with string operations would > be better to just receive a nul-terminated string rather than a string the > length of which is defined. This change was implemented for > v4l2_subdev_string_to_pixelcode() and v4l2_subdev_string_to_field() > functions by patch "v4l: libv4l2subdev: Drop length argument from string > conversion functions" (commit id > 341f4343e6190a7ceb546f7c74fa67e1cc9ae79f). > > Do the same change for media_get_entity_by_name() in libmediactl. No other > functions using length argument for strings remain in libmediactl. > > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > utils/media-ctl/libmediactl.c | 19 +++++++++---------- > utils/media-ctl/media-ctl.c | 3 +-- > utils/media-ctl/mediactl.h | 3 +-- > 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/utils/media-ctl/libmediactl.c b/utils/media-ctl/libmediactl.c > index 89ac11c..78caa7c 100644 > --- a/utils/media-ctl/libmediactl.c > +++ b/utils/media-ctl/libmediactl.c > @@ -66,21 +66,14 @@ struct media_pad *media_entity_remote_source(struct > media_pad *pad) } > > struct media_entity *media_get_entity_by_name(struct media_device *media, > - const char *name, size_t length) > + const char *name) > { > unsigned int i; > > - /* A match is impossible if the entity name is longer than the maximum > - * size we can get from the kernel. > - */ > - if (length >= FIELD_SIZEOF(struct media_entity_desc, name)) > - return NULL; > - > for (i = 0; i < media->entities_count; ++i) { > struct media_entity *entity = &media->entities[i]; > > - if (strncmp(entity->info.name, name, length) == 0 && > - entity->info.name[length] == '\0') > + if (strcmp(entity->info.name, name) == 0) While the kernel API guarantees that entity->info.name will be NULL- terminated, wouldn't it be safer to add a safety check here ? > return entity; > } > > @@ -804,6 +797,8 @@ struct media_pad *media_parse_pad(struct media_device > *media, for (; isspace(*p); ++p); > > if (*p == '"' || *p == '\'') { > + char *name; > + > for (end = (char *)p + 1; *end && *end != '"' && *end != '\''; ++end); > if (*end != '"' && *end != '\'') { > media_dbg(media, "missing matching '\"'\n"); > @@ -811,7 +806,11 @@ struct media_pad *media_parse_pad(struct media_device > *media, return NULL; > } > > - entity = media_get_entity_by_name(media, p + 1, end - p - 1); > + name = strndup(p + 1, end - p - 1); > + if (!name) > + return NULL; > + entity = media_get_entity_by_name(media, name); > + free(name); > if (entity == NULL) { > media_dbg(media, "no such entity \"%.*s\"\n", end - p - 1, p + 1); > *endp = (char *)p + 1; > diff --git a/utils/media-ctl/media-ctl.c b/utils/media-ctl/media-ctl.c > index f45ca43..2f049c6 100644 > --- a/utils/media-ctl/media-ctl.c > +++ b/utils/media-ctl/media-ctl.c > @@ -559,8 +559,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) > if (media_opts.entity) { > struct media_entity *entity; > > - entity = media_get_entity_by_name(media, media_opts.entity, > - strlen(media_opts.entity)); > + entity = media_get_entity_by_name(media, media_opts.entity); > if (entity == NULL) { > printf("Entity '%s' not found\n", media_opts.entity); > goto out; > diff --git a/utils/media-ctl/mediactl.h b/utils/media-ctl/mediactl.h > index 77ac182..b5a92f5 100644 > --- a/utils/media-ctl/mediactl.h > +++ b/utils/media-ctl/mediactl.h > @@ -245,14 +245,13 @@ static inline unsigned int media_entity_type(struct > media_entity *entity) * @brief Find an entity by its name. > * @param media - media device. > * @param name - entity name. > - * @param length - size of @a name. > * > * Search for an entity with a name equal to @a name. > * > * @return A pointer to the entity if found, or NULL otherwise. > */ > struct media_entity *media_get_entity_by_name(struct media_device *media, > - const char *name, size_t length); > + const char *name); > > /** > * @brief Find an entity by its ID. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html