The patch titled
fix parsing of statistics type-attribute
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
statistics-infrastructure-fix-parsing-of-statistics-type-attribute.patch
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Subject: fix parsing of statistics type-attribute
From: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Without this fix the the statistics user interface accepted, for example:
echo name=my_stats type=utilisa > definition
while it should only accept:
echo name=my_stats type=utilisation > definition
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/statistic.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-fix-parsing-of-statistics-type-attribute lib/statistic.c
--- a/lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-fix-parsing-of-statistics-type-attribute
+++ a/lib/statistic.c
@@ -506,7 +506,8 @@ static int statistic_parse_match(struct
len = (args[0].to - args[0].from);
for (type = 0; type < STAT_NONE; type++) {
disc = &statistic_discs[type];
- if (unlikely(strncmp(disc->name, args[0].from, len)))
+ if (strlen(disc->name) != len ||
+ strncmp(disc->name, args[0].from, len))
continue;
return statistic_parse_single(stat, info, def, type);
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mp3@xxxxxxxxxx are
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-list.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-parser.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-parser-fix.patch
add-for_each_substring-and-match_substring.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-timestamp.patch
statistics-infrastructure-make-printk_clock-a-generic-kernel-wide-nsec-resolution.patch
statistics-infrastructure-documentation.patch
statistics-infrastructure.patch
statistics-infrastructure-add-for_each_substring-and-match_substring-exploitation.patch
statistics-infrastructure-fix-parsing-of-statistics-type-attribute.patch
statistics-infrastructure-exploitation-zfcp.patch
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