The patch titled Subject: lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool fix Drop needless buffer usage. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c~lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool-fix fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c~lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool-fix +++ a/fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c @@ -596,7 +596,6 @@ static ssize_t cifs_security_flags_proc_ int rc; unsigned int flags; char flags_string[12]; - char c[2] = { '\0' }; bool bv; if ((count < 1) || (count > 11)) @@ -609,11 +608,10 @@ static ssize_t cifs_security_flags_proc_ if (count < 3) { /* single char or single char followed by null */ - c[0] = flags_string[0]; - if (strtobool(c, &bv) == 0) { + if (strtobool(flags_string, &bv) == 0) { global_secflags = bv ? CIFSSEC_MAX : CIFSSEC_DEF; return count; - } else if (!isdigit(c[0])) { + } else if (!isdigit(flags_string[0])) { cifs_dbg(VFS, "Invalid SecurityFlags: %s\n", flags_string); return -EINVAL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are lib-move-strtobool-to-kstrtobool.patch lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool.patch lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool-fix.patch lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool.patch param-convert-some-on-off-users-to-strtobool.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html