mdev: safer handling of $SUBSYSTEM in mdev -s

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/mdev.c b/util-linux/mdev.c
index 0f7e082ba..2451cca05 100644
--- a/util-linux/mdev.c
+++ b/util-linux/mdev.c
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 /* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
 /*
- *
  * mdev - Mini udev for busybox
  *
  * Copyright 2005 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
@@ -8,7 +7,6 @@
  *
  * Licensed under GPL version 2, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
  */
-
 #include "libbb.h"
 #include "xregex.h"
 
@@ -353,11 +351,13 @@ static int FAST_FUNC dirAction(const char *fileName UNUSED_PARAM,
                 void *userData UNUSED_PARAM,
                 int depth)
 {
-        /* Extract device subsystem -- the name of the directory under /sys/class/ */
+        /* Extract device subsystem -- the name of the directory
+         * under /sys/class/ */
         if (1 == depth) {
+                free(subsystem);
                 subsystem = strrchr(fileName, '/');
                 if (subsystem)
-                        subsystem++;
+                        subsystem = xstrdup(subsystem + 1);
         }
 
         return (depth >= MAX_SYSFS_DEPTH ? SKIP : TRUE);
@@ -397,17 +397,17 @@ static void load_firmware(const char *const firmware, const char *const sysfs_pa
         goto out;
 
  loading:
-        /* tell kernel we're loading by `echo 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading` */
+        /* tell kernel we're loading by "echo 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading" */
         if (full_write(loading_fd, "1", 1) != 1)
                 goto out;
 
-        /* load firmware by `cat /lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data */
+        /* load firmware into /sys/$DEVPATH/data */
         data_fd = open("data", O_WRONLY);
         if (data_fd == -1)
                 goto out;
         cnt = bb_copyfd_eof(firmware_fd, data_fd);
 
-        /* tell kernel result by `echo [0|-1] > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading` */
+        /* tell kernel result by "echo [0|-1] > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading" */
         if (cnt > 0)
                 full_write(loading_fd, "0", 1);
         else