From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcm: Convert backstore ->set_configfs_dev_params() to use parser.h
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:58:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD98BA9.7010102@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101109134522.GA4548@infradead.org>
On 11/09/2010 03:45 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:03:21AM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>> <nod> thanks for the pointer here..
>>
>> Btw, the kstrdup() is required because the configfs attribute store
>> function will be passing a 'const char *page' that is propigated from
>> target_core_configfs.c: target_core_store_dev_control() out to
>> ->set_configfs_dev_params() backend code.
>
> strsep doesn't modify the data it points to, just the pointer itself.
> We could get around this by casting the pointer, which at least avoids
> the memory allocation. But it's probably not worth bothering.
>
If it is so, then the proper fix is to "const" the parameter to strsep()
most certainly don't hide a const_cast like that. This is a landmine
waiting to explode.
Boaz
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-09 9:48 [PATCH] tcm: Convert backstore ->set_configfs_dev_params() to use parser.h Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-09 10:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-09 10:03 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-09 13:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-09 17:58 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
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