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From: kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich)
To: linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: usb hotplug $DEVICE empty
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:59:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041027115943.GA1674@xeon2.local.here> (raw)

I found out why $DEVICE did not show of in /sbin/hotplug
any more. (2.6.10-rc1-bk5)

Depending on the setting of CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
either the environment variables DEVICE or PRODUCT
which should be passed to /sbin/hotplug become overwritten
by the environment variable SEQNUM.

This happens in kobject_hotplug() of lib/kobject_uevent.c.

The here called hotplug_ops->hotplug function usb_hotplug()
advances both, the index to envp and the pointer into buffer
but the calling function gets no notice of that.

So to add SEQNUM later on it advances index/pointer to
envp/buffer from where it has stopped before calling
usb_hotplug(), thus overwriting the first entry that 
usb_hotplug() has added before.


-- 
Klaus

             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-27 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-27 11:59 Klaus Dittrich [this message]
2004-10-29  4:24 ` [PATCH] kobject hotplug: don't let SEQNUM overwrite other vars (was Re: usb hotplug $DEVICE empty) Roland Dreier
2004-10-29  4:38   ` Greg KH
2004-10-29 18:44     ` [PATCH] kobject hotplug: don't let SEQNUM overwrite other vars Roland Dreier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-25 12:32 usb hotplug \$DEVICE empty Klaus Dittrich

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