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    • Mark Lord's avatar
      fix uevent action-string regression · a9edadbf
      Mark Lord authored
      Mark Lord wrote:
      >
      > On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" messages.
      ..
      > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqd: uevent: unsupported
      > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
      > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqe: uevent: unsupported
      > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
      > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqf: uevent: unsupported
      > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
      > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyr0: uevent: unsupported
      > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
      ..
      
      These messages are a regression compared with 2.6.24, which did not
      flood the syslog with them.
      
      The actual underlying problem was introduced in 2.6.23, when somebody
      made the string parsing no longer accept nul-terminated strings as a
      valid input to store_uevent().
      
      Eg.  "add\0" was valid prior to 2.6.23, where the code regressed to
      require "add" without the '\0'.
      
      This patch fixes the 2.6.23 / 2.6.24 regressions, by having the code
      once again tolerate the trailing '\0', if present.
      
      According to GregKH, this mainly affects older Ubuntu systems, such as
      the one I have here that requires this fix.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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