Re: [PATCH] - prof_cpu_mask problems

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

> Can you tell me, Bill, how it is that having:
> 
>   #define HEX_DIGITS (2*sizeof(cpumask_t))
> 
> leaves room for the terminating nul-byte?  Seems to me that
> a lot of hexnum[] arrays might be one byte short.

To answer my own question - on the output side (reads from /proc), the
code verifies that the user provided HEX_DIGITS+1 count bytes - good.

On the input side (writes into /proc), the code doesn't rely on a
nul-terminator, and ensures that only at most HEX_DIGITS worth are
copied into hexnum[].

It works.  Now let me fire up my time machine and undo one of my posts
from earlier today ...

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