Re: [PATCH] scsi: ses check name in enclosure_component_register

From: James Bottomley
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 20:18:32 EST


On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:56 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 19:18 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> dev_set_name will use sprintf to copy the name.
> >> need to check if the name does valid.
> >>
> >> otherwise will error from device_add later.
> >
> > I think what you mean to say is that empty names aren't allowed in the
> > device model.
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
> >> index 3cf61ec..68743a9 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
> >> @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ enclosure_component_register(struct enclosure_device *edev,
> >> ecomp->number = number;
> >> cdev = &ecomp->cdev;
> >> cdev->parent = get_device(&edev->edev);
> >> - if (name)
> >> + if (name && name[0])
> >> dev_set_name(cdev, name);
> >
> > Actually, I think this should become
> >
> > dev_set_name(cdev, "%s", name);
> >
> > as well, otherwise any name with a percent in it will get interpreted in
> > ways we're not expecting at all.
>
> i tried that it still failed.

I didn't say it was the fix to your problem. I said on looking at the
code it's another potential problem source. Your problem is that
filesystems don't support empty file names.

James


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