linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: mvm: make debugfs write() operations write up to count bytes

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Message-ID: <1377507467.13247.3.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:57:47 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Cc:	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@...ux.intel.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: mvm: make debugfs write() operations write
 up to count bytes

On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 14:35 +0100, Djalal Harouni wrote:
> Some debugfs write() operations of the MVM Firmware will ignore the
> count argument, and will copy more bytes than what was specified.
> Fix this by getting the right count of bytes.
> 
> This will honor restrictions put on the number of bytes to write and
> avoid strcmp() calls on garbage data.

Applied, thanks.

johannes

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