[PATCH][2.4] Fix to allow ethtool to work with large bus #s

[Olof Johansson]

Julie,

Julie DeWandel wrote:
> The patch also extends the "slot_name" field of the
> pci_dev structure to 10 characters to accommodate the longer name. Note
> that extending this field does not affect ethtool since "slot_name" is
> copied into the 32-character "bus_info" field of the ethtool_drvinfo
> structure that is written to user space.

On some very large configs, we allocate (sparse) PCI bus numbers, sometimes larger than 256. There's
still a little room in the string, since the other parts can maximum take up 6 characters (':' + 2
hex + '.' + 1 dec + '\0'). snprintf() would protect against writing over the following fields at least.

Why not allocate 12 characters while you're at it, since that's what the field will be rounded up to
in the struct?

Besides that, the patch looks good to me.


-Olof

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