Re: [PATCH] IDE-TAPE NULL terminate strings.

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Sun Sep 21 2008 - 16:07:39 EST


Hello, I wrote:

After updating my kernel to 2.6.26 the output for the ide-tape drive
during booting is garbled eg
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: Seagate <98>ß8A51|1À<81>ܺ<98>ß STT20000A rev 8A51|1À<81>ܺ<98>ß

This patch fixes the problem by NULL terminating the strings.

Regards,
Mark de Wever

PS: please CC me since I'm not subscribed.
PPS: there are more problems with my tapestreamer in 2.6.26 but I'll
post a separate message for that.

Signed-off-by: Mark de Wever <koraq@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
index 1bce84b..fd87b43 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -2354,6 +2354,10 @@ static void idetape_get_inquiry_results(ide_drive_t *drive)
ide_fixstring(product_id, 18, 0);
ide_fixstring(fw_rev, 6, 0);

Hm, I see that every string variable declared there has 2 extra characters, and yet the author have managed to make a mistake... these extra chars don't seem needed.

MBR, Sergei
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