linux-kernel - Fix IPMI watchdog set_param

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Date:	Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:05:44 +0100
From:	Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@...l.net>
Subject: Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdup


  I've wondered for some time why my IPMI watchdog stopped working. I traced it
back to the following patch:

	[PATCH] ipmi: strstrip conversion

  Here is a patch to fix this issue.

  Sébastien.


                Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdup

  set_param_str() cannot use kstrdup() to duplicate the parameter. That's
fine when the driver is compiled as a module but it sure is not when
built into the kernel as the kernel parameters are parsed before the
kmalloc slabs are setup.


 ipmi_watchdog.c |   11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net>

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc1/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-rc1.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c	2006-12-14 02:14:23.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc1/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c	2006-12-19 17:20:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -216,13 +216,13 @@ static int set_param_str(const char *val
 {
 	action_fn  fn = (action_fn) kp->arg;
 	int        rv = 0;
-	char       *dup, *s;
+	char       valcp[16];
+	char       *s;
 
-	dup = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!dup)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	strncpy(valcp, val, 16);
+	valcp[15] = '\0';
 
-	s = strstrip(dup);
+	s = strstrip(valcp);
 
 	down_read(&register_sem);
 	rv = fn(s, NULL);
@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ static int set_param_str(const char *val
 
  out_unlock:
 	up_read(&register_sem);
-	kfree(dup);
 	return rv;
 }
 
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