Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated

2016-08-08 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens writes: Calvin> We blindly trust the hardware to give us NUL-terminated strings, Calvin> which is a bad idea because it doesn't always do that. For Calvin> example: Calvin> [ 481.184784] mpt3sas_cm0: enclosure level(0x), connector Calvin>

Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated

2016-08-08 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens writes: Calvin> We blindly trust the hardware to give us NUL-terminated strings, Calvin> which is a bad idea because it doesn't always do that. For Calvin> example: Calvin> [ 481.184784] mpt3sas_cm0: enclosure level(0x), connector Calvin> name( \x3) Calvin>

RE: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated

2016-08-05 Thread Chaitra Basappa
Hi, Please consider this patch as Acked-by: Chaitra P B Thanks, Chaitra -Original Message- From: Calvin Owens [mailto:calvinow...@fb.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 10:16 AM To: Sathya Prakash; Chaitra P B; Suganath Prabu Subramani; James E.J.

RE: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated

2016-08-05 Thread Chaitra Basappa
Hi, Please consider this patch as Acked-by: Chaitra P B Thanks, Chaitra -Original Message- From: Calvin Owens [mailto:calvinow...@fb.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 10:16 AM To: Sathya Prakash; Chaitra P B; Suganath Prabu Subramani; James E.J. Bottomley; Martin K. Petersen Cc:

Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated

2016-08-04 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens writes: Calvin> We blindly trust the hardware to give us NUL-terminated strings, Calvin> which is a bad idea because it doesn't always do that. For Calvin> example: Broadcom folks, please respond to this and other mpt3sas patches in the queue:

Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated

2016-08-04 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens writes: Calvin> We blindly trust the hardware to give us NUL-terminated strings, Calvin> which is a bad idea because it doesn't always do that. For Calvin> example: Broadcom folks, please respond to this and other mpt3sas patches in the queue: