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Message-ID: <20061022183924.GA18032@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:39:24 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To: Thomas Maier <balagi@...tmail.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 07:17:47PM +0200, Thomas Maier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since most of the files in sysfs are text files,
> it would be nice, if the "store" function called
> during sysfs_write_file() gets a zero terminated
> string / data.
> The current implementation seems not to ensure this.
> (But only if it is the first time the zeroed buffer
> page is allocated.)
Have you seen sysfs buffers being passed to the store() function in a
non-null terminated manner? How?
Are you seeking backward and then writing again to the file somehow?
thanks,
greg k-h
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