[OE-core] [PATCH] makedevs: don't restrict device node paths to 40 characters

[Khem Raj]

> On Oct 2, 2016, at 11:41 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 40 character paths work OK for device nodes in /dev but not for
>>> device nodes created in a chroot, LXC container, etc.
>>> 
>>> Since the 'path' array is already a 4k buffer, the sscanf 40
>>> character limit seems to be a typo or historical mis-merge. Update
>>> the sscanf limit and bring the code in sync with the Buildroot
>>> version:
>>> 
>>> https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=8876b6751e0bc19a3754290061808f0f8420708e
>> 
>> what is upstream worthiness of this patch ? it seems it could be
>> a good change
> 
> Where is the upstream?

mtd-utils, but in this case it seems its a back port so we are fine.

> 
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs/makedevs.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs/makedevs.c b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs/makedevs.c
>>> index 7471f3f..cba7681 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs/makedevs.c
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs/makedevs.c
>>> @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static int interpret_table_entry(char *line)
>>>      unsigned long mode = 0755, uid = 0, gid = 0, major = 0, minor = 0;
>>>      unsigned long start = 0, increment = 1, count = 0;
>>> 
>>> -     if (0 > sscanf(line, "%40s %c %lo %40s %40s %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu", path,
>>> +     if (0 > sscanf(line, "%4095s %c %lo %40s %40s %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu", path,
>>>                  &type, &mode, usr_buf, grp_buf, &major, &minor, &start,
>>>                  &increment, &count))
>>>      {
>>> --
>>> 1.9.1
>>> 
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