Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] EDAC: Fix sysfs dimm_label store operation

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Sep 25 2015 - 13:50:16 EST


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:59:27PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 21:15 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:06:04PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > edac-utils(1) checks empty labels and shows them as "ch%d" [1]. So,
> > > I think empty labels are supported today, and using 'echo "" >' seems
> > > to be a legitimate way to set them empty if desired.
> >
> > What would be a sane use case to set a DIMM label to an empty string?
>
> Well, I guess there isn't a sane use case for it... :-)
>
> Attached is a patch (on top of patch 2/2) to disallow an empty string.
> I prefer to make it as a separate patch in case someone comes up with
> a valid use-case for it.
>
> Thanks,
> -Toshi
>
> ====
> Subject: [PATCH] EDAC: Fail empty string to sysfs dimm_label store
>
> Updating dimm_label to an empty string does not make much sense.
> Change the sysfs dimm_label store option to fail a request when
> an input string is empty.
>
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

All three applied.

Thanks.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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