linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] leds: netdev trigger: move name length checking to netdev_trig_set

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Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:26:14 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] leds: netdev trigger: move name length checking
 to netdev_trig_set_device

On Thu 2019-03-14 15:06:17, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> It's better to check that size is sane in the function that does the
> memcpy'ing and 0-termination to the IFNAMSIZ-sized buffer instead of
> relying on callers getting it right. Not rejecting size upfront does
> mean we would do the cancel_delayed_work_sync(), but that gets fixed
> up by the set_baseline_state() call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>

Exactly. 2,4:

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>

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