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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
	Ron <ron@debian.org>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH driver-core-linus] sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:25:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400549140.19786.6.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520004955.GA30633@mtj.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 20:49 -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 03:32:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > +	memset(buf, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
> > 
> > 	memset(buf, 0, count)?
> 
> It's always PAGE_SIZE.  Outputs longer than that are truncated.

Yeah, I know, but the code and comment above it don't match.

/* acquire buffer and ensure that it's >= PAGE_SIZE and clear */




      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20140519172334.GK20439@audi.shelbyville.oz>
2014-05-19 19:52 ` [PATCH driver-core-linus] sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed Tejun Heo
2014-05-19 22:25   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-19 22:32     ` Joe Perches
2014-05-20  0:49       ` Tejun Heo
2014-05-20  1:25         ` Joe Perches [this message]

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