This patch changes the way we insure the config data
is a string. Clearly this was just wrong. After a
certain number of loads/unloads various OOPs were
generated indicating something other than this driver
had a problem. It was this driver.
Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell <ma...@compro.net>
Tested-by: Mark Hounschell <ma...@compro.net>
Reported-by: Mark Hounschell <ma...@compro.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
index 3c9278a..e0b8d0f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ static int dgap_firmware_load(struct pci_dev *pdev, int
card_type)
return ret;
}
- dgap_config_buf = kmalloc(fw->size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ dgap_config_buf = kzalloc(fw->size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dgap_config_buf) {
release_firmware(fw);
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -842,7 +842,6 @@ static int dgap_firmware_load(struct pci_dev *pdev, int
card_type)
memcpy(dgap_config_buf, fw->data, fw->size);
release_firmware(fw);
- dgap_config_buf[fw->size + 1] = '\0';
if (dgap_parsefile(&dgap_config_buf, TRUE) != 0) {
kfree(dgap_config_buf);
--
1.8.4.5
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