[udev] check for empty symlink string

[udev] check for empty symlink string

[Kay Sievers]

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Attached is a patch for udev-add.c to ignore empty symlink string parts.
Issue was brought up by ide-devfs.sh with only one symlink returned, while two are expected.

thanks,
Kay


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diff -Nru a/udev-add.c b/udev-add.c
--- a/udev-add.c	Thu Dec 25 21:08:52 2003
+++ b/udev-add.c	Thu Dec 25 21:08:52 2003
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 		symlinks = dev->symlink;
 		while (1) {
 			linkname = strsep(&symlinks, " ");
-			if (linkname == NULL)
+			if (linkname == NULL || linkname[0] == '\0')
 				break;
 
 			strncpy(filename, udev_root, sizeof(filename));

Re: [udev] check for empty symlink string

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:15:19PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> Attached is a patch for udev-add.c to ignore empty symlink string parts.
> Issue was brought up by ide-devfs.sh with only one symlink returned, while two are expected.

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h


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