Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:47:52 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] thermal: Fix for setting the thermal zone mode to enable/disable | From | Eric Paris <> |
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:40:01 +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote: >> Basically without this patch changing the mode of thermal zone >> is not possible as wrong string size is passed to strncmp. > > Actually it is possible, > $ echo -n disabled > mode > works fine. But it fails without the -n, your patch would fix that. > > Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> > > Note that a quick grep suggests that drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c, > security/selinux/hooks.c and arch/m68k/sun3/prom/console.c suffer from > the same issue, if you want to fix them too.
I do see that we use sizeof() for strings in the selinux code, but I don't see a place that it is a bug. If you see a bug let me know and I'd be happy to fix it!
-Eric
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