Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct
This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations. Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the error handling. Signed-off-by:Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/tiocx.c 1 addition, 2 deletionsarch/ia64/sn/kernel/tiocx.c
- arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c 11 additions, 26 deletionsarch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c
- arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c 3 additions, 13 deletionsarch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
- arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c 2 additions, 7 deletionsarch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c
- block/genhd.c 8 additions, 27 deletionsblock/genhd.c
- drivers/acpi/scan.c 9 additions, 7 deletionsdrivers/acpi/scan.c
- drivers/amba/bus.c 3 additions, 6 deletionsdrivers/amba/bus.c
- drivers/base/class.c 10 additions, 32 deletionsdrivers/base/class.c
- drivers/base/core.c 25 additions, 59 deletionsdrivers/base/core.c
- drivers/base/firmware_class.c 3 additions, 8 deletionsdrivers/base/firmware_class.c
- drivers/base/memory.c 1 addition, 2 deletionsdrivers/base/memory.c
- drivers/base/platform.c 2 additions, 4 deletionsdrivers/base/platform.c
- drivers/eisa/eisa-bus.c 2 additions, 7 deletionsdrivers/eisa/eisa-bus.c
- drivers/firewire/fw-device.c 2 additions, 9 deletionsdrivers/firewire/fw-device.c
- drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c 10 additions, 7 deletionsdrivers/firmware/dmi-id.c
- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c 2 additions, 6 deletionsdrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
- drivers/ide/ide.c 5 additions, 12 deletionsdrivers/ide/ide.c
- drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c 4 additions, 13 deletionsdrivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c
- drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c 3 additions, 6 deletionsdrivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
- drivers/input/input.c 20 additions, 42 deletionsdrivers/input/input.c
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