| To: | Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] don't allow / in class device names |
| From: | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:45:55 -0800 |
| Cc: | Tommi Virtanen <tv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@xxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20040213203448.GB14048@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Organization: | Open Source Development Lab |
| References: | <20040213102755.27cf4fcd.shemminger@xxxxxxxx> <20040213203448.GB14048@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
> No, the "fix" is to just not do this in the driver. I'm not going to > apply this patch, sorry. > > thanks, > > greg k-h Bah, kernel API's should check there arguments. One of my peeve's about sysfs is that it is far too lazy about checking it's inputs. Especially, when the restrictions are not well documented, the code needs to validate. |
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