From: Bert Wesarg <wesarg@informatik.uni-halle.de>
there seems to be a bug, at least for me, in kernel/param.c for arrays with
.num == NULL. If .num == NULL, the function param_array_set() uses &.max
for the call to param_array(), wich alters the .max value to the number of
arguments. The result is, you can't set more array arguments as the last
time you set the parameter.
example:
# a module 'example' with
# static int array[10] = { 0, };
# module_param_array(array, int, NULL, 0644);
$ insmod example.ko array=1,2,3
$ cat /sys/module/example/parameters/array
1,2,3
$ echo "4,3,2,1" > /sys/module/example/parameters/array
$ dmesg | tail -n 1
kernel: array: can take only 3 arguments
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <wesarg@informatik.uni-halle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---
25-akpm/kernel/params.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/params.c~kernel-paramc-dont-use-max-when-num-is-null-in kernel/params.c
--- 25/kernel/params.c~kernel-paramc-dont-use-max-when-num-is-null-in 2005-03-28 17:23:10.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/kernel/params.c 2005-03-28 17:23:10.000000000 -0800
@@ -314,9 +314,10 @@ int param_array(const char *name,
int param_array_set(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
{
struct kparam_array *arr = kp->arg;
+ unsigned int temp_num;
return param_array(kp->name, val, 1, arr->max, arr->elem,
- arr->elemsize, arr->set, arr->num ?: &arr->max);
+ arr->elemsize, arr->set, arr->num ?: &temp_num);
}
int param_array_get(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp)
_