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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: line6: fix possible overrun
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Thank's for your answers,
will try to look deeper,

>> >
>> > If we want to sovle the truncation issue then we need to think of
>> > shorter names for BassPODxtLive, BassPODxtPro, PODStudioUX1, and
>> > PODStudioUX2.
>> >
>>
>> In that case I suggest compile time assertions that ids and names fit
>
> That sounds like some magic code which I would love to see. :)
>
>> and a WARN_ON + -EINVAL in line6_init_audio to catch future
>> offenders.
>
> Returning -EINVAL is a bad idea because it would break the driver
> completely and make it unusable.
>
>>
>> As a side note I'm not sure if pod_try_init from
>> drivers/staging/line6/pod.c
>> cleans up properly after failed line6_init_audio.
>
> Yeah. It doesn't seem to clean up at all.
>

Laurent Navet.
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