2021-03-26 15:15:59

by Rasmus Villemoes

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Subject: [PATCH] debugfs: drop pointless nul-termination in debugfs_read_file_bool()

simple_read_from_buffer() doesn't care about any bytes in the buffer
beyond "available". Making the buffer nul-terminated is therefore
completely pointless.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
---
fs/debugfs/file.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 686e0ad28788..9979d981e9be 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_atomic_t);
ssize_t debugfs_read_file_bool(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
- char buf[3];
+ char buf[2];
bool val;
int r;
struct dentry *dentry = F_DENTRY(file);
@@ -789,7 +789,6 @@ ssize_t debugfs_read_file_bool(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
else
buf[0] = 'N';
buf[1] = '\n';
- buf[2] = 0x00;
return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, 2);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_read_file_bool);
--
2.29.2