From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] request_irq: avoid slash in proc directory entries
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:34:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050105093457.GA8684@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050105000129.63478670.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, Jan 05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > A few users of request_irq pass a string with '/'.
> > As a result, ls -l /proc/irq/*/* will fail to list these entries.
>
> hrm, interesting. So how do these entries appear in /proc? Do they
> actually have slashes in them?
Yes, ls /proc/irq/*/* works, but ls -l does not because you have to
stat() the entry. I havent looked in detail, just poked around in /proc.
> I get the feeling that something somewhere should be detecting this and
> should be propagating an error back.
Yeah, a quick sanity check for procfile creation would be a good thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-05 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-05 7:53 [PATCH] request_irq: avoid slash in proc directory entries Olaf Hering
2005-01-05 8:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-05 9:34 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2005-01-05 19:22 ` [PATCH] prohibit slash in proc directory entry names Nathan Lynch
2005-01-06 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 0:12 ` Nathan Lynch
2005-01-05 12:37 ` [PATCH] request_irq: avoid slash in proc directory entries Alan Cox
2005-01-05 13:53 ` Olaf Hering
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