linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 13/27] thunderbolt: Read vendor and device name from DROM

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Date:   Sun, 28 May 2017 11:45:50 +0300
From:   Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
        Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@...el.com>,
        Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@...el.com>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Amir Levy <amir.jer.levy@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Mario Limonciello <Mario.Limonciello@...l.com>,
        Jared.Dominguez@...l.com,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/27] thunderbolt: Read vendor and device name from
 DROM

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 06:57:38PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > The device DROM contains name of the vendor and device among other
> > things. Extract this information and expose it to the userspace via two
> > new attributes.
> 
> > +static const char *parse_name(const u8 *data, u8 len)
> 
> Hmm... (name)
> 
> > +{
> > +       char *name;
> > +
> > +       name = kmemdup(data, len, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Since it's ASCII by specification it may make sense to use
> 
> sw->..._name = kstrndup(entry->data, sizeof(*header), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!sw->..._name)
>  return -ENOMEM;
> 
> just in place, instead of this entire function.

I did not even know we have kstrndup(). Cool, I'll change that but the
length needs to be header->len - sizeof(*header) instead of
sizeof(*header).