Re: [PATCH v2 10/15] auxdisplay: linedisp: Provide a small buffer in the struct linedisp

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Andy,

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is a driver that uses small buffer for the string, when we
> add a new one, we may avoid duplication and use one provided by
> the line display library. Allow user to skip buffer pointer when
> registering a device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c
> +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c
> @@ -330,8 +330,8 @@ int linedisp_register(struct linedisp *linedisp, struct device *parent,
>         linedisp->dev.parent = parent;
>         linedisp->dev.type = &linedisp_type;
>         linedisp->ops = ops;
> -       linedisp->buf = buf;
> -       linedisp->num_chars = num_chars;
> +       linedisp->buf = buf ? buf : linedisp->curr;
> +       linedisp->num_chars = buf ? num_chars : min(num_chars, LINEDISP_DEFAULT_BUF_SZ);

I think it would be safer to return an error if buf == NULL and
num_chars < LINEDISP_DEFAULT_BUF_SZ.
Else a careless driver that doesn't check linedisp->num_chars might
overflow the buffer.

>         linedisp->scroll_rate = DEFAULT_SCROLL_RATE;
>
>         err = ida_alloc(&linedisp_id, GFP_KERNEL);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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