The p->u.board.status is allocated and set a string as "No" once within allocating a node of BNODE type. But it also set again with kstrdup() in case of "STATUS" or "ID". If it is not allocated yet, use kstrdup(). If not, use just memcpy().
Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.y...@gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c index a207bd7..cedf4b3 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c +++ b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c @@ -6598,7 +6598,11 @@ static int dgap_parsefile(char **in) pr_err("dgap: parse: unexpected end of file\n"); return -1; } - p->u.board.status = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL); + + if (p->u.board.status) + memcpy(p->u.board.status, s, strlen(s) + 1); + else + p->u.board.status = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL); break; case NPORTS: /* number of ports */ @@ -6648,7 +6652,10 @@ static int dgap_parsefile(char **in) return -1; } - p->u.board.status = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL); + if (p->u.board.status) + memcpy(p->u.board.status, s, strlen(s) + 1); + else + p->u.board.status = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL); if (p->type == CNODE) { p->u.conc.id = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL); -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/