Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo fix cpu_data(0) x86_model_id field truncation

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Mon May 18 2015 - 18:04:19 EST




On 05/18/2015 04:53 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/18/2015 01:36 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 04:27:02PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
>>> The problem here is that strim() modifies the string in place,
>>> replacing the first trailing space with a null. I think the best
>>> solution is to do the trimming in get_model_name(). It already trims
>>> leading spaces for Intel.
>>
>> Sounds good - start from the 48th position forward to the first non \s
>> char. Yeah.
>>
>
> Yes, we should trim both leading and trailing spaces.

Oh sorry, I missed this as it just landed in my mailbox. So a backward search
for the first non \s char.

I can do that and I'll nack my new patch.

P.

>
> -hpa
>
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