linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zram: fix idle/writeback string compare

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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:55:07 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Makoto Wu <makotowu@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: fix idle/writeback string compare

On (03/20/19 08:19), Minchan Kim wrote:
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>	[5.0]
> Reported-by: Makoto Wu <makotowu@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

> +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -290,18 +290,8 @@ static ssize_t idle_store(struct device *dev,
>  	struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
>  	unsigned long nr_pages = zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	int index;
> -	char mode_buf[8];
> -	ssize_t sz;
>  
> -	sz = strscpy(mode_buf, buf, sizeof(mode_buf));
> -	if (sz <= 0)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
> -	/* ignore trailing new line */
> -	if (mode_buf[sz - 1] == '\n')
> -		mode_buf[sz - 1] = 0x00;
> -
> -	if (strcmp(mode_buf, "all"))
> +	if (!sysfs_streq(buf, "all"))
>  		return -EINVAL;
[..]

That's a good improvement of the code.

	-ss