On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:59:46PM +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > And sadly enough some of those ->id strings are more than 15 characters > > and a NUL which will fit in card->id. So this overflow is real. The > > card->shortname is a 32 char array so none of those overflow. > > > > If we want to sovle the truncation issue then we need to think of > > shorter names for BassPODxtLive, BassPODxtPro, PODStudioUX1, and > > PODStudioUX2. > > > > In that case I suggest compile time assertions that ids and names fit
That sounds like some magic code which I would love to see. :) > and a WARN_ON + -EINVAL in line6_init_audio to catch future > offenders. Returning -EINVAL is a bad idea because it would break the driver completely and make it unusable. > > As a side note I'm not sure if pod_try_init from drivers/staging/line6/pod.c > cleans up properly after failed line6_init_audio. Yeah. It doesn't seem to clean up at all. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/