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

[Nikolay Aleksandrov]

On 22/07/18 09:27, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
> 

Okay, will do. I'll also prepare a separate patch for the bonding, 
it does a cast like this in bonding_sysfs_store_option().

Thanks