linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] ACPI sysfs.c strlen fix

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1206301023540.29029-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:25:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@...linux.ru>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] ACPI sysfs.c strlen fix

On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Len Brown wrote:

> From: Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@...linux.ru>
> 
> Current code is ignoring the last character of "enable" and "disable"
> in comparisons.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33732
> 
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> index 9f66181..240a244 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static int param_set_trace_state(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
>  {
>  	int result = 0;
>  
> -	if (!strncmp(val, "enable", strlen("enable") - 1)) {
> +	if (!strncmp(val, "enable", strlen("enable"))) {

Ironically, this is the less efficient of two possible fixes.

It would have been better to leave the "- 1" in place and change strlen 
to sizeof.  That's probably what the original author had in mind.

Alan Stern

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