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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] usb_string fix
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:36:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020805223620.GC29396@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200208052142.g75Lg9C25845.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:42:09PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> 
> [I thought I sent this yesterday night, but don't see it on l-k,
> maybe I forgot. Sorry if I send it twice.]
> 
> Things are indeed as conjectured, and I can reproduce the situation
> where usb_string() returns -EPIPE. Now that this is an internal
> error code for the USB subsystem, and not meant to get out to the
> user, I made these driverfs files empty in case of error.
> (While if there is no error but the string has length 0,
> the file will consist of a single '\n'.)
> 
> One fewer random memory corruption. Unfortunately, there are more.

Thanks for the fix, I've applied it to my trees.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2002-08-05 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-05 21:42 [PATCH] usb_string fix Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-05 22:36 ` Greg KH [this message]

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