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Jon Smirl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Remove leading and trailing whitespace when text sysfs attributes are
assigned a value.


Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 
@@ -207,6 +208,28 @@ flush_write_buffer(struct dentry * dentr
        struct attribute * attr = to_attr(dentry);
        struct kobject * kobj = to_kobj(dentry->d_parent);
        struct sysfs_ops * ops = buffer->ops;
+       char *x, *y, *z;
+
+       /* locate leading white space */
+       x = buffer->page;
+       while (isspace(*x) && (x - buffer->page < count))
+               x++;
+
+       /* locate trailng white space */
+       z = y = x;
+       while (y - buffer->page < count) {
+               y++;
+               z = y;
+               while (isspace(*y) && (y - buffer->page < count)) {
+                       y++;
+               }
+       }
+       count = z - x;
+
+       /* strip the white space */
+       if (buffer->page != x)
+               memmove(buffer->page, x, count);
+       buffer->page[count] = '\0';
 
        return ops->store(kobj,attr,buffer->page,count);
 }
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