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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] pm_qos_params: cleanup: terminate a string
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:38:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907213818.GA5351@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100907133805.GA20050@gvim.org>

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:38:05AM -0700, mark gross wrote:
> >  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pm_qos_lock, flags);
> > @@ -374,10 +374,12 @@ static ssize_t pm_qos_power_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
> >  	} else if (count == 11) { /* len('0x12345678/0') */
> >  		if (copy_from_user(ascii_value, buf, 11))
> >  			return -EFAULT;
> > +		if (strlen(ascii_value) > 10)
>                          should be !=
> 
> > +			return -EINVAL;
> >  		x = sscanf(ascii_value, "%x", &value);
> >  		if (x != 1)
> >  			return -EINVAL;

With the original code you could do:
	char buf[11];  /* must be 11 chars */

	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "0x%x", 42);
	write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));

But the new code is stricter so the number would have to be zero padded.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03 12:41 [patch] pm_qos_params: cleanup: terminate a string Dan Carpenter
2010-09-07  6:22 ` mark gross
2010-09-07 13:38   ` mark gross
2010-09-07 21:38     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-09-08 22:13     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-09-09  2:56       ` mark gross
2010-09-09 21:21         ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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