Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/irda: fix max dup length for kstrndup

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Tue Dec 12 2017 - 13:27:24 EST


On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:54:44 +0800
Ma Shimiao <mashimiao.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If source string longer than max, kstrndup will alloc max+1 space.
> So, we should make sure the result will not over limit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ma Shimiao <mashimiao.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Did you read the TODO file in drivers/staging/irda?

The irda code will be removed soon from the kernel tree as it is old and
obsolete and broken.

Don't worry about fixing up anything here, it's not needed.