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Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 13:53:57 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo fix cpu_data(0) x86_model_id field truncation
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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.

	-hpa

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