linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'

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Message-ID: <20200207194955.41fd5192@oasis.local.home>
Date:   Fri, 7 Feb 2020 19:49:55 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Tim Bird <Tim.Bird@...y.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and
 '--'

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 19:26:32 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

>  static void __init setup_boot_config(const char *cmdline)
>  {
> +	static char tmp_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] __initdata;
>  	u32 size, csum;
>  	char *data, *copy;
>  	const char *p;

I have a v2 of this patch that removes the variable "p" as I now get an
unused variable because of it.

-- Steve


>  	u32 *hdr;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	p = strstr(cmdline, "bootconfig");
> -	if (!p || (p != cmdline && !isspace(*(p-1))) ||
> -	    (p[10] && !isspace(p[10])))
> +	strlcpy(tmp_cmdline, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
> +	parse_args("bootconfig", tmp_cmdline, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
> +		   bootconfig_params);
> +
> +	if (!bootconfig_found)
>  		return;