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authorDave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>2007-10-18 03:05:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-18 14:37:21 -0700
commitfaf8c714f4508207a9c81cc94dafc76ed6680b44 (patch)
tree74746c9b577b9bbf008dafbbeef4d94d2813c7be /kernel
parent8f286c33f1e838d631f4a3260b33efce4bc5973c (diff)
param_sysfs_builtin memchr argument fix
If memchr argument is longer than strlen(kp->name), there will be some weird result. It will casuse duplicate filenames in sysfs for the "nousb". kernel warning messages are as bellow: sysfs: duplicate filename 'usbcore' can not be created WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:416 sysfs_add_one() [<c01c4750>] sysfs_add_one+0xa0/0xe0 [<c01c4ab8>] create_dir+0x48/0xb0 [<c01c4b69>] sysfs_create_dir+0x29/0x50 [<c024e0fb>] create_dir+0x1b/0x50 [<c024e3b6>] kobject_add+0x46/0x150 [<c024e2da>] kobject_init+0x3a/0x80 [<c053b880>] kernel_param_sysfs_setup+0x50/0xb0 [<c053b9ce>] param_sysfs_builtin+0xee/0x130 [<c053ba33>] param_sysfs_init+0x23/0x60 [<c024d062>] __next_cpu+0x12/0x20 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0 [<c052a856>] do_initcalls+0x46/0x1e0 [<c01bdb12>] create_proc_entry+0x52/0x90 [<c0158d4c>] register_irq_proc+0x9c/0xc0 [<c01bda94>] proc_mkdir_mode+0x34/0x50 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0 [<c052aa92>] kernel_init+0x62/0xb0 [<c0104f83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14 ======================= kobject_add failed for usbcore with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. [<c024e466>] kobject_add+0xf6/0x150 [<c053b880>] kernel_param_sysfs_setup+0x50/0xb0 [<c053b9ce>] param_sysfs_builtin+0xee/0x130 [<c053ba33>] param_sysfs_init+0x23/0x60 [<c024d062>] __next_cpu+0x12/0x20 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0 [<c052a856>] do_initcalls+0x46/0x1e0 [<c01bdb12>] create_proc_entry+0x52/0x90 [<c0158d4c>] register_irq_proc+0x9c/0xc0 [<c01bda94>] proc_mkdir_mode+0x34/0x50 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0 [<c052aa92>] kernel_init+0x62/0xb0 [<c0104f83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14 ======================= Module 'usbcore' failed to be added to sysfs, error number -17 The system will be unstable now. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 1d6aca288cd..16f269e9ddc 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -592,11 +592,17 @@ static void __init param_sysfs_builtin(void)
for (i=0; i < __stop___param - __start___param; i++) {
char *dot;
+ size_t kplen;
kp = &__start___param[i];
+ kplen = strlen(kp->name);
/* We do not handle args without periods. */
- dot = memchr(kp->name, '.', MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME);
+ if (kplen > MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME) {
+ DEBUGP("kernel parameter name is too long: %s\n", kp->name);
+ continue;
+ }
+ dot = memchr(kp->name, '.', kplen);
if (!dot) {
DEBUGP("couldn't find period in %s\n", kp->name);
continue;