This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
printk-fix-parsing-of-brl-option.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ae6c33ba6e37eea3012fe2640b22400ef3f2d0f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:17:00 -0700
Subject: printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option
From: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>
commit ae6c33ba6e37eea3012fe2640b22400ef3f2d0f3 upstream.
Commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files") moved the parsing of braille-related options into
_braille_console_setup(), changing the type of variable str from char*
to char**. In this commit, memcmp(str, "brl,", 4) was correctly updated
to memcmp(*str, "brl,", 4) but not memcmp(str, "brl=", 4).
Update the code to make "brl=" option work again and replace memcmp()
with strncmp() to make the compiler able to detect such an issue.
Fixes: bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823165700.28952-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/printk/braille.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/printk/braille.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/braille.c
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
char *_braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options)
{
- if (!memcmp(*str, "brl,", 4)) {
+ if (!strncmp(*str, "brl,", 4)) {
*brl_options = "";
*str += 4;
- } else if (!memcmp(str, "brl=", 4)) {
+ } else if (!strncmp(*str, "brl=", 4)) {
*brl_options = *str + 4;
*str = strchr(*brl_options, ',');
if (!*str)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/printk-fix-parsing-of-brl-option.patch
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