Hi Rusty,
(If you are not the culprit, please forward to the guilty party).
The patch the the Wavelan driver that I quote below introduces
a nice bug that can crash the kernel. Maybe you want to think about
fixing it, or maybe I should revert the patch...
As a side note...
I personally don't like the "string pointer" module parameter,
previously 'p' and currently 'charp', because I can easily lead to
this kind of bug, add extra bloat in the module for various checks and
doesn't have a clean way to return the error to user space.
I personally introduced the "double char array" module
parameter, 'c', to fix that. I even sent you the patch to add 'c'
support in your new module loader (see set_obsolete()). Would it be
possible to carry this feature with the new module_param_array ?
Thanks in advance...
Jean
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diff -Nru a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.c 2005-01-11 20:03:09 -08:00
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.c 2005-01-11 20:03:09 -08:00
@@ -4344,7 +4344,8 @@
struct net_device *dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(net_local));
if (!dev)
break;
- memcpy(dev->name, name[i], IFNAMSIZ); /* Copy name */
+ if (name[i])
+ strcpy(dev->name, name[i]); /* Copy name */
dev->base_addr = io[i];
dev->irq = irq[i];
diff -Nru a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.p.h b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.p.h
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.p.h 2005-01-11 20:03:07 -08:00
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.p.h 2005-01-11 20:03:07 -08:00
@@ -703,10 +703,11 @@
/* Parameters set by insmod */
static int io[4];
static int irq[4];
-static char name[4][IFNAMSIZ];
-MODULE_PARM(io, "1-4i");
-MODULE_PARM(irq, "1-4i");
-MODULE_PARM(name, "1-4c" __MODULE_STRING(IFNAMSIZ));
+static char *name[4];
+module_param_array(io, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_array(irq, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_array(name, charp, NULL, 0);
+
MODULE_PARM_DESC(io, "WaveLAN I/O base address(es),required");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(irq, "WaveLAN IRQ number(s)");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(name, "WaveLAN interface neme(s)");
-
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