netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: bridge: add support for raw sysfs port options

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Date:   Sat, 21 Jul 2018 23:27:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        anuradhak@...ulusnetworks.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, wkok@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: bridge: add support for raw sysfs
 port options

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:48:25 +0300

> +		spin_lock_bh(&p->br->lock);
> +		ret = brport_attr->store_raw(p, (char *)buf);
> +		spin_unlock_bh(&p->br->lock);

Please respect the const here.

Have the methods do a kstrncup(); ... kfree(); sequence if they have
to mangle the contents when there is a newline inside.

I know the caller is passing in what was a non-const char pointer,
I've looked at the implementation, but it might be that way forever.

I looked at all other sysfs writes that need to do this \n --> \0
mangling and they either copy the string first into a static buffer
or they do the kstrncup() thing.

Thank you.