diff mbox series

media: lirc: drop trailing space from scancode transmit

Message ID 20231007123133.6718-1-sean@mess.org
State Accepted
Commit c8a489f820179fb12251e262b50303c29de991ac
Headers show
Series media: lirc: drop trailing space from scancode transmit | expand

Commit Message

Sean Young Oct. 7, 2023, 12:31 p.m. UTC
When transmitting, infrared drivers expect an odd number of samples; iow
without a trailing space. No problems have been observed so far, so
this is just belt and braces.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
---
 drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
index 043d23aaa3cb..a537734832c5 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
@@ -276,7 +276,11 @@  static ssize_t lirc_transmit(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 		if (ret < 0)
 			goto out_kfree_raw;
 
-		count = ret;
+		/* drop trailing space */
+		if (!(ret % 2))
+			count = ret - 1;
+		else
+			count = ret;
 
 		txbuf = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(unsigned int), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!txbuf) {