Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: hisilicon - allow smaller reads in debugfs

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jun 18 2020 - 03:57:11 EST


On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:54:09PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Originally this code rejected any read less than 256 bytes. There
> is no need for this artificial limit. We should just use the normal
> helper functions to read a string from the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Use simple_read_from_buffer(). The v1 was slightly half arsed
> because I left the original check for:
>
> if (*pos)
> return 0;
>
> So it could result in partial reads. The new code means that if you
> want to read the buffer one byte at a time, that's fine or if you want
> to read it in one 256 byte chunk that's also fine. Plus it deletes 21
> lines of code and is a lot cleaner.
>
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c | 33 ++++++---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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