[Bridge] [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: bridge: add support for raw sysfs port options

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sun Jul 22 06:27:33 UTC 2018


From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:48:25 +0300

> +		spin_lock_bh(&p->br->lock);
> +		ret = brport_attr->store_raw(p, (char *)buf);
> +		spin_unlock_bh(&p->br->lock);

Please respect the const here.

Have the methods do a kstrncup(); ... kfree(); sequence if they have
to mangle the contents when there is a newline inside.

I know the caller is passing in what was a non-const char pointer,
I've looked at the implementation, but it might be that way forever.

I looked at all other sysfs writes that need to do this \n --> \0
mangling and they either copy the string first into a static buffer
or they do the kstrncup() thing.

Thank you.


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