Re: [patch 04/13] param_sysfs_builtin memchr argument fix

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:20:47PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > On 11/15/2007 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:11:59AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >>> On 11/15/2007 01:09 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>>> -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >>>>
> >>>> ------------------
> >>>> From: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> patch faf8c714f4508207a9c81cc94dafc76ed6680b44 in mainline.
> >>>>
> >>>> If memchr argument is longer than strlen(kp->name), there will be some
> >>>> weird result.
> >>>>
> >>>> It will casuse duplicate filenames in sysfs for the "nousb".  kernel
> >>>> warning messages are as bellow:
> >>>>
> >>> Needs an additional fix:
> >>>
> >>> Commit:     22800a2830ec07e7cc5c837999890ac47cc7f5de
> >>> fix param_sysfs_builtin name length check
> >> That just went in yesterday, right?  If so, it will have to wait until
> >> the next -stable review cycle, unless it's totally broken without that
> >> change.
> >>
> >> Is it?
> >>
> > 
> > Yeah, pretty much AFAICT. Maybe Jan can say exactly what happened, but
> > it looks like the patch would cause more problems than it solves.
> > 
> 
> If you have a module parameter like
> "my_module.uses_long_parameter_names", Dave's patch caused it to be
> rejected if that module was built into the kernel, although "my_module"
> is far shorter than MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME, thus perfectly legal.
> 
> I noticed this with out-of-tree stuff, but I would bet in-tree users are
> affected as well. Hmm... e.g. "nf_conntrack.expect_hashsize" should not
> longer exist if nf_conntrack is non-modular.

Ok, that makes sense, I've added your patch to the queue to go into the
next release with this original patch.

thanks,

greg k-h