* Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-03-23 00:12
Looking through the netlink/attr.c code I noticed that NLA_STRING
attributes that end with a binary NUL have it removed before passing it
to the consumer.
It's not really removed, the trailing NUL is just ignored when checking
the length of
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:20 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
It's not really removed, the trailing NUL is just ignored when checking
the length of the attribute.
Good point.
This is needed for older netlink families
where strings are not always NUL terminated, yet we still need to accept
the
Looking through the netlink/attr.c code I noticed that NLA_STRING
attributes that end with a binary NUL have it removed before passing it
to the consumer.
For wireless, we have a few places where we need to be able to accept
any (even binary) values, for example for the SSID; the SSID can validly
