Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct

This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.

Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 909a03d6c0e..6628e457ddc 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -396,28 +396,22 @@ static struct attribute_group wireless_group = {
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
-static int netdev_uevent(struct device *d, char **envp,
-                         int num_envp, char *buf, int size)
+static int netdev_uevent(struct device *d, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 {
         struct net_device *dev = to_net_dev(d);
-        int retval, len = 0, i = 0;
+        int retval;
 
         /* pass interface to uevent. */
-        retval = add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
-                                buf, size, &len,
-                                "INTERFACE=%s", dev->name);
+        retval = add_uevent_var(env, "INTERFACE=%s", dev->name);
         if (retval)
                 goto exit;
 
         /* pass ifindex to uevent.
          * ifindex is useful as it won't change (interface name may change)
          * and is what RtNetlink uses natively. */
-        retval = add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
-                                buf, size, &len,
-                                "IFINDEX=%d", dev->ifindex);
+        retval = add_uevent_var(env, "IFINDEX=%d", dev->ifindex);
 
 exit:
-        envp[i] = NULL;
         return retval;
 }
 #endif