Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:14:36 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [38/99] param: fix setting arrays of bool |
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2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
commit 3c7d76e371ac1a3802ae1673f5c63554af59325c upstream.
We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word. This matters for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style).
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- kernel/params.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ static int param_array(const char *name, unsigned int min, unsigned int max, void *elem, int elemsize, int (*set)(const char *, struct kernel_param *kp), + u16 flags, unsigned int *num) { int ret; @@ -308,6 +309,7 @@ static int param_array(const char *name, /* Get the name right for errors. */ kp.name = name; kp.arg = elem; + kp.flags = flags; /* No equals sign? */ if (!val) { @@ -353,7 +355,8 @@ int param_array_set(const char *val, str unsigned int temp_num; return param_array(kp->name, val, 1, arr->max, arr->elem, - arr->elemsize, arr->set, arr->num ?: &temp_num); + arr->elemsize, arr->set, kp->flags, + arr->num ?: &temp_num); } int param_array_get(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp)
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