RE: [PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: make debugfs write() operations write upto count bytes

From: Berg, Johannes
Date: Mon Aug 12 2013 - 04:19:35 EST


> Some debugfs write() operations of the MVM Firmware will ignore the count
> argument, and will copy more bytes than what was specified.
> Fix this by getting the right count of bytes.
>
> This will also honor restrictions put on the number of bytes to write.

That makes some sense.

> To be consitant this patch also switches the initializer from 'char buf[x] = {}' to
> the explicit memset() as it is done in other places of the same file.

I'd rather this (a) be done in a separate patch, and (b) the other way around, switch everything to C99.

> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

That doesn't really make sense for the debugfs interface.

> + memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
> + if (count > sizeof(buf) - 1)
> + count = sizeof(buf) - 1;

Why -1? And why not use min()/min_t()?

johannes
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