Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: forgotten dereference...

[Ben Collins]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 20:59 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Going through the string and waiting for _pointer_ to become '\0'
> is not what the authors meant...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c b/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c
> index c4d3d41..51a1206 100644
> --- a/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c
> +++ b/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c
> @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static ssize_t fw_show_##class##_##td_kv (struct device *dev, struct device_attr
>  	memcpy(buf,							\
>  	       CSR1212_TEXTUAL_DESCRIPTOR_LEAF_DATA(class->td_kv),	\
>  	       len);							\
> -	while ((buf + len - 1) == '\0')					\
> +	while (buf[len - 1] == '\0')					\
>  		len--;							\
>  	buf[len++] = '\n';						\
>  	buf[len] = '\0';						\

ACK

Definitely looks right with your patch. Thanks.

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