[PATCH 2/6] hwrng: core: Simplify RNG switching from sysfs

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Sep 13 07:24:13 PDT 2015


>>>>> "Lee" == Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> writes:

 > If we attempt to use sysfs to change the current RNG in the usual
 > way i.e. issuing something like:

 > `echo 8a8a000.rng > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_current`

 > ... it will fail because the code doesn't currently take the '\n'
 > into consideration.  Well, now it does.

 > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
 > ---
 >  drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 7 ++++++-
 >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

 > diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
 > index da8faf7..14dc984 100644
 > --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
 > +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
 > @@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ static ssize_t hwrng_attr_current_store(struct device *dev,
 >  					const char *buf, size_t len)
 >  {
 >  	int err;
 > +	int snip = 0;
 >  	struct hwrng *rng;
 
 >  	err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&rng_mutex);
 > @@ -323,7 +324,11 @@ static ssize_t hwrng_attr_current_store(struct device *dev,
 >  		return -ERESTARTSYS;
 >  	err = -ENODEV;
 >  	list_for_each_entry(rng, &rng_list, list) {
 > -		if (strcmp(rng->name, buf) == 0) {
 > +
 > +		if (buf[len-1] == '\n')
 > +			snip = 1; /* Snip one character */
 > +

How about using sysfs_streq() instead, which is what is done elsewhere?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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