On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Kieran Bingham wrote:

> If a user provides a shortened string to match a device to the sysfs i2c
> interface it will match on the first string that contains that string
> prefix.
> 
> for example:
>   echo a 0x68 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device
> 
> will match as3711, as3722, and ak8975 incorrectly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]>
  
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> index 01bce56f733a..50c9cfdb87b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> @@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ i2c_of_match_device_strip_vendor(const struct 
> of_device_id *matches,
>               else
>                       name++;
>  
> -             if (!strncasecmp(client->name, name, strlen(client->name)))
> +             if (!strncasecmp(client->name, name, strlen(name)))
>                       return matches;
>       }
>  

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