Re: [PATCH 001 of 7] md: Support 'external' metadata for md arrays.

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:26:08 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> +	if (strncmp(buf, "external:", 9) == 0) {
> +		int namelen = len-9;
> +		if (namelen >= sizeof(mddev->metadata_type))
> +			namelen = sizeof(mddev->metadata_type)-1;
> +		strncpy(mddev->metadata_type, buf+9, namelen);
> +		mddev->metadata_type[namelen] = 0;
> +		if (namelen && mddev->metadata_type[namelen-1] == '\n')
> +			mddev->metadata_type[--namelen] = 0;
> +		mddev->persistent = 0;
> +		mddev->external = 1;

size_t would be a more appropriate type for `namelen'.
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