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Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated

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From "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Subject Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated
Date Fri, 05 Aug 2016 03:40:01 +0200
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>>>>> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> writes:

Calvin> We blindly trust the hardware to give us NUL-terminated strings,
Calvin> which is a bad idea because it doesn't always do that. For
Calvin> example:

Broadcom folks, please respond to this and other mpt3sas patches in the
queue:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-scsi/list/?q=mpt3sas

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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[PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> - 2016-07-28 06:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-08-05 03:40 +0200
  RE: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated Chaitra Basappa <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com> - 2016-08-05 08:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-08-09 03:20 +0200

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