On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:19:12AM +0000, Berg, Johannes wrote: > > Some debugfs write() operations of the MVM Firmware will ignore the count > > argument, and will copy more bytes than what was specified. > > Fix this by getting the right count of bytes. > > > > This will also honor restrictions put on the number of bytes to write. > > That makes some sense. And avoid strncmp() on garbage data. > > To be consitant this patch also switches the initializer from 'char buf[x] = {}' to > > the explicit memset() as it is done in other places of the same file. > > I'd rather this (a) be done in a separate patch, and (b) the other way around, switch everything to C99. Ok > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > That doesn't really make sense for the debugfs interface. Ok > > + memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); > > + if (count > sizeof(buf) - 1) > > + count = sizeof(buf) - 1; > > Why -1? And why not use min()/min_t()? Yes -1 to be sure that the processed string is null terminated Ok will use min_t Will send a second version, Thanks! > johannes > -- > > Intel GmbH > Dornacher Strasse 1 > 85622 Feldkirchen/Muenchen, Deutschland > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Feldkirchen bei Muenchen > Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christian Lamprechter, Hannes Schwaderer, Douglas Lusk > Registergericht: Muenchen HRB 47456 > Ust.-IdNr./VAT Registration No.: DE129385895 > Citibank Frankfurt a.M. (BLZ 502 109 00) 600119052 > -- Djalal Harouni http://opendz.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html