Re: [2.6.31-rc8] Problem with detect USB devices

From: Maciej Rutecki
Date: Fri Sep 04 2009 - 14:37:50 EST


2009/9/4 Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2009/9/4 Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>
>> Maciej,
>>
>> can you run a git bisection?
>>


0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd is first bad commit
commit 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd
Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Aug 27 03:20:04 2009 -0700

inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL.

Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0'
byte to user space after the filename. Since the rewrite that
terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of
event_size. Ouch!

So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to
set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the
strange nul_inotify_event. I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero
will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more
efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to
do.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

:040000 040000 ae8bc8bebfd205cde1f7b7689f60a2ada08b1e24
7be919a71e3e27510ec38f95664a5e770ce82ad8 M fs

Unfortunately I cannot revert it (to make sure):
root@gumis:/usr/src/git/linux-2.6# git revert
0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd
Automatic revert failed. After resolving the conflicts,
mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
and commit the result.

Regards
--
Maciej Rutecki
http://www.maciek.unixy.pl
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