Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_uac2: fix non-newline-terminated function name

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 03:25:53PM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
> Most writes to configfs handle an optional newline, but do not require
> it.  By using the number of bytes written as the limit for scnprintf()
> it is guaranteed that the final character in the buffer will be
> overwritten.
> 
> This is expected if it is a newline but is undesirable when a string is
> written "as-is" (as libusbgx does, for example).

So we are changing kernel functionality because a userspace program does
not work?  Why not fix the userspace program?

> Update the store function to strip an optional newline, matching the
> behaviour of usb_string_copy().

This changes the behaviour of a lot of configfs files right?  What will
break if this happens?

thanks,

greg k-h