Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipmi: strstrip conversion

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

It's a little less efficient, but certainly a lot cleaner to do it this
way.  It's not critical code, so I'm happy with this change.

-Corey

Pekka Enberg wrote:

>From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>
>This patch switches an open-coded strstrip to use the new API.
>
>Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
>Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>
>---
>
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c |   25 +++++++++----------------
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
>342eaae5800b0fd002f5101d66ccb02e786016d8
>diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
>index 2d11ddd..8f88671 100644
>--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
>+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
>@@ -212,24 +212,16 @@ static int set_param_str(const char *val
> {
> 	action_fn  fn = (action_fn) kp->arg;
> 	int        rv = 0;
>-	const char *end;
>-	char       valcp[16];
>-	int        len;
>-
>-	/* Truncate leading and trailing spaces. */
>-	while (isspace(*val))
>-		val++;
>-	end = val + strlen(val) - 1;
>-	while ((end >= val) && isspace(*end))
>-		end--;
>-	len = end - val + 1;
>-	if (len > sizeof(valcp) - 1)
>-		return -EINVAL;
>-	memcpy(valcp, val, len);
>-	valcp[len] = '\0';
>+	char       *dup, *s;
>+
>+	dup = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL);
>+	if (!dup)
>+		return -ENOMEM;
>+
>+	s = strstrip(dup);
> 
> 	down_read(&register_sem);
>-	rv = fn(valcp, NULL);
>+	rv = fn(s, NULL);
> 	if (rv)
> 		goto out_unlock;
> 
>@@ -239,6 +231,7 @@ static int set_param_str(const char *val
> 
>  out_unlock:
> 	up_read(&register_sem);
>+	kfree(dup);
> 	return rv;
> }
> 
>  
>