Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: fix wrong strnchr usage

[Kalle Valo]

Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> strnchr takes arguments in the order of its name: string, max bytes to
> read, character to search for. Here we're passing '\n' aka 10 as the
> buffer size, and searching for sizeof(buf) aka BRCMF_DCMD_SMLEN aka
> 256 (aka '\0', since it's implicitly converted to char) within those 10
> bytes.
> 
> Just interchanging the last two arguments would still leave a bug,
> because if we've been successful once, there are not sizeof(buf)
> characters left after the new value of p.
> 
> Since clmver is immediately afterwards passed as a %s argument, I assume
> that it is actually a properly nul-terminated string. For that case, we
> have strreplace().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

cb18e2e9ec71 brcmfmac: fix wrong strnchr usage

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