Re: [PATCH] (2/4) support large number of network devices -- name hash

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

Use strnlen, great idea, thanks.

diff -Nru a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
--- a/net/core/dev.c    Mon Jan 19 11:30:20 2004
+++ b/net/core/dev.c    Mon Jan 19 11:30:20 2004
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@
 
 static inline struct hlist_head *dev_name_hash(const char *name)
 {
-       size_t len = min(strlen(name),(size_t)(IFNAMSIZ-1));
-       unsigned hash = full_name_hash(name, len);
+       unsigned hash = full_name_hash(name, 
+                                      strnlen(name, IFNAMSIZ-1));
        return &dev_name_head[hash & ((1<<NETDEV_HASHBITS)-1)];
 }