[PATCH] drm/debugfs: accept trailing whitespace in "force" attribute

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Michael Tretter <m.tretter at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Using plain echo to set the "force" connector attribute fails with
> -EINVAL, because echo appends a newline to the output.
>
> Strip trailing whitespace in the input before checking the value to
> accept "off\n" or "off  ".

Please replace the strcmp() calls with sysfs_streq() instead.

BR,
Jani.

>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tretter <m.tretter at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c
> index c1807d5754b2..10dd89d3f28e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c
> @@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static ssize_t connector_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
>  	struct seq_file *m = file->private_data;
>  	struct drm_connector *connector = m->private;
>  	char buf[12];
> +	int i;
>  
>  	if (len > sizeof(buf) - 1)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -250,6 +251,10 @@ static ssize_t connector_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
>  
>  	buf[len] = '\0';
>  
> +	/* strip trailing whitespace */
> +	for (i = len - 1; i > 0 && isspace(buf[i]); i--)
> +		buf[i] = '\0';
> +
>  	if (!strcmp(buf, "on"))
>  		connector->force = DRM_FORCE_ON;
>  	else if (!strcmp(buf, "digital"))

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center