[PATCH] mtd: nand: assign mtd->name in find_full_id_nand

[Caizhiyong]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Norris [mailto:computersforpeace at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 4:10 AM
> To: Huang Shijie; Caizhiyong
> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org; Wanglin (Albert); David Woodhouse;
> linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; Artem Bityutskiy
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: assign mtd->name in find_full_id_nand
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:19:39AM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 01:51:58AM +0000, Caizhiyong wrote:
> > > From: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong at huawei.com>
> > > Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 21:19:21 +0800
> > > Subject: [PATCH] mtd: nand: assign mtd->name in find_full_id_nand
> > >
> > > This patch assigned the type->name to mtd->name when mtd->name is
> > > NULL in function "find_full_id_nand".
> > > mtd->name is NULL may cause some problem.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong at huawei.com>
> > Acked-by: Huang Shijie <b32955 at freescale.com>
> 
> Thanks, the patch looks good. Pushed to l2-mtd.git.
> 
> Wouldn't this trigger an exception when reading
> /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/name? If so, should this be marked for stable?

View the source code, if mtd->name is NULL, cat "/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/name" will get string "(null)".

static ssize_t mtd_name_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
	struct mtd_info *mtd = dev_get_drvdata(dev);

	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", mtd->name);
}