Re: [PATCH] arch: sparc: prom: looping issue, need additionallength check in the outside looping

[David Miller]

From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:35:22 +0800

> 
> When "cp >= barg_buf + BARG_LEN-2", it breaks internel looping 'while',
> but outside loop 'for' still has effect, so "*cp++ = ' '" will continue
> repeating which may cause memory overflow.
> 
> So need additional length check for it in the outside looping.
> 
> Also beautify the related code which found by "./scripts/checkpatch.pl"

Applied.
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