From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755866Ab2GaEva (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:51:30 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:48889 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755731Ab2GaEvJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:51:09 -0400 Message-Id: <20120731044314.682435444@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:43:31 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ezequiel Garcia , Radek Masin Subject: [ 21/73] cx25821: Remove bad strcpy to read-only char* In-Reply-To: <20120731044310.013763753@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ezequiel Garcia commit 380e99fc44d79bc35af9ff1d3316ef4027ce775e upstream. The strcpy was being used to set the name of the board. Since the destination char* was read-only and the name is set statically at compile time; this was both wrong and redundant. The type of char* is changed to const char* to prevent future errors. Reported-by: Radek Masin Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia [ Taking directly due to vacations - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821-core.c | 3 --- drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821-core.c b/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821-core.c index 83c1aa6..f11f6f0 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821-core.c @@ -904,9 +904,6 @@ static int cx25821_dev_setup(struct cx25821_dev *dev) list_add_tail(&dev->devlist, &cx25821_devlist); mutex_unlock(&cx25821_devlist_mutex); - strcpy(cx25821_boards[UNKNOWN_BOARD].name, "unknown"); - strcpy(cx25821_boards[CX25821_BOARD].name, "cx25821"); - if (dev->pci->device != 0x8210) { pr_info("%s(): Exiting. Incorrect Hardware device = 0x%02x\n", __func__, dev->pci->device); diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821.h b/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821.h index b9aa801..029f293 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821.h +++ b/drivers/media/video/cx25821/cx25821.h @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ enum port { }; struct cx25821_board { - char *name; + const char *name; enum port porta; enum port portb; enum port portc;