Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Rafael,

Add this one to the list?


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Subject: + driver-core-fix-uevent-action-string-regression.patch added to -mm tree
From: akpm
To: mm-commits
Date: 28/03/08 07:51 PM

The patch titled
     driver core: fix uevent action-string regression
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     driver-core-fix-uevent-action-string-regression.patch
...

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: driver core: fix uevent action-string regression
From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>

On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" messages.
..
Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqd: uevent: unsupported
action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqe: uevent: unsupported
action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqf: uevent: unsupported
action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyr0: uevent: unsupported
action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version


These messages are a regression compared with 2.6.24, which did not flood the
syslog with them.

The actual underlying problem was introduced in 2.6.23, when somebody made the
string parsing no longer accept nul-terminated strings as a valid input to
store_uevent().

Eg.  "add\0" was valid prior to 2.6.23, where the code regressed to require
"add" without the '\0'.

This patch fixes the 2.6.23 / 2.6.24 regressions, by having the code once
again tolerate the trailing '\0', if present.

According to GregKH, this mainly affects older Ubuntu systems, such as the one
I have here that requires this fix.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/kobject_uevent.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN lib/kobject_uevent.c~driver-core-fix-uevent-action-string-regression lib/kobject_uevent.c
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c~driver-core-fix-uevent-action-string-regression
+++ a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int kobject_action_type(const char *buf,
 	enum kobject_action action;
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
 
-	if (count && buf[count-1] == '\n')
+	if (count && (buf[count-1] == '\n' || buf[count-1] == '\0'))
 		count--;
 
 	if (!count)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from lkml@rtr.ca are

driver-core-fix-uevent-action-string-regression.patch