Documentation: freefall: simplify pathnames
authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Wed, 6 Aug 2014 06:32:41 +0000 (23:32 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:13:40 +0000 (09:13 -0700)
Copying to local variable is actually not neccessary, if all we need
to do is snprintf(). This also removes problem where devname could be
missing zero termination.

Reported-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/laptops/freefall.c

index d417318..5e44b20 100644 (file)
@@ -29,16 +29,12 @@ static const char app_name[] = "FREE FALL";
 
 static int set_unload_heads_path(char *device)
 {
-       char devname[64];
-
        if (strlen(device) <= 5 || strncmp(device, "/dev/", 5) != 0)
                return -EINVAL;
-       strncpy(devname, device + 5, sizeof(devname) - 1);
-       devname[sizeof(devname) - 1] = '\0';
        strncpy(device_path, device, sizeof(device_path) - 1);
 
        snprintf(unload_heads_path, sizeof(unload_heads_path) - 1,
-                               "/sys/block/%s/device/unload_heads", devname);
+                               "/sys/block/%s/device/unload_heads", device+5);
        return 0;
 }