Re: [PATCH v9 07/20] gpiolib: cdev: support GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL and GPIO_V2_LINE_GET_VALUES_IOCTL

[Kent Gibson]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 12:00:04PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:16 PM Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 01:06:02PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > Hmmm, there is more to it than I thought - gpiod_request_commit(),
> > which this code eventually calls, interprets a null label (not an
> > empty string) as indicating that the user has not set the label, in
> > which case it will set the desc label to "?". So userspace cannot
> > force the desc label to be empty.
> >
> > We need to keep that label as null in that case to maintain that
> > behaviour.
> >
> > I will add a comment there though.
> >
> > Hmmm, having said that, does this form work for you:
> >
> >         if (ulr.consumer[0] != '\0') {
> >                 /* label is only initialized if consumer is set */
> >                 lr->label = kstrndup(ulr.consumer, sizeof(ulr.consumer) - 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> >         ...
> >
> > It actually compiles slightly larger, I guess due to the extra parameter
> > in the kstrndup() call, but may be slightly more readable??
> 
> I really don't want to delay this series, choose what you think is
> better and we may amend it later.
> 

OK, as this code is common with v1 I'll leave it as is - we can always
change it for all cases in a later patch.

I think that is everything outstanding for v9, so should have a v10 out
shortly.

Cheers,
Kent.