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| author | Sebastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> | 2006-12-29 16:46:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-12-30 10:55:54 -0800 |
| commit | 43cdff92ad47e0ca024c8a07d29f9bb6119e759c (patch) | |
| tree | 3f7b65d311012d3c02082da41af174ce9b779589 /drivers/char | |
| parent | 7479b1ce5ea41a828002c60739cff37f47b62913 (diff) | |
[PATCH] Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdup
set_param_str() cannot use kstrdup() to duplicate the parameter. That's
fine when the driver is compiled as a module but it sure is not when built
into the kernel as the kernel parameters are parsed before the kmalloc
slabs are setup.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c index 78280380a90..6b634e8d951 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c @@ -216,13 +216,13 @@ static int set_param_str(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) { action_fn fn = (action_fn) kp->arg; int rv = 0; - char *dup, *s; + char valcp[16]; + char *s; - dup = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dup) - return -ENOMEM; + strncpy(valcp, val, 16); + valcp[15] = '\0'; - s = strstrip(dup); + s = strstrip(valcp); down_read(®ister_sem); rv = fn(s, NULL); @@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ static int set_param_str(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) out_unlock: up_read(®ister_sem); - kfree(dup); return rv; } |