Re: clkdev: report over-sized strings when creating clkdev entries

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:27:20PM +0200, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 22:53, Russell King (Oracle)
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 01:26:17PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Arnd Bergmann (2024-05-07 00:44:15)
> > > > On Tue, May 7, 2024, at 09:20, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > > > The WinLink E850-96 board boot failed with Linux next-20240506 but there
> > > > > is no kernel crash log on the serial [1].
> > > > >
> > > > > Anders bisection results pointing to this commit,
> > > > > # first bad commit:
> > > > >   [4d11c62ca8d77cb1f79054844b598e0f4e92dabe]
> > > > >   clkdev: report over-sized strings when creating clkdev entrie
> > > > >
> > > > > After reverting the above patch the boot test passed [2].
> > > > >
> > > > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > >
> > > There are two fixes on the list: [1] and [2]. Perhaps one of those
> > > resolves this?
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507065317.3214186-1-m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > This one has (I think) ended up in the patch system last week, but it's
> > not clkdev, it's only related. I'm also not Cc'd on its posting, and
> > it's not posted to any mailing list that I'm a part of. So I've not
> > been following any discussion on it.
> >
> > Digging in to the discussion, I see various attributations, and a final
> > message reporting an unused variable, and a promise to send v2. So,
> > I'm guessing that
> > http://www.home.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=9397/1
> 
> I do not have access to this link ^.

Sorry, that's my internal link, the external one is:

http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=9397/1

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