The following commit has been merged in the linux branch:
commit d39b7dd1dcbf394a1cb897457c862dafe9a20ac5
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu Nov 5 10:48:30 2009 -0800
sgi-gru: decrapfiy options_write() function
Not a single line of actual code in the function was really
fundamentally correct.
Problems ranged from lack of proper range checking, to removing the last
character written (which admittedly is usually '\n'), to not accepting
hex numbers even though the 'show' routine would show the data in that
format.
This tries to do better.
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb(a)bu3sch.de>
Tested-and-acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner(a)sgi.com>
Cc: stable(a)kernel.org
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina(a)suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert(a)gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c
index ccd4408..3f2375c 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c
@@ -161,14 +161,15 @@ static int options_show(struct seq_file *s, void *p)
static ssize_t options_write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
size_t count, loff_t *data)
{
- unsigned long val;
- char buf[80];
+ char buf[20];
- if (strncpy_from_user(buf, userbuf, sizeof(buf) - 1) < 0)
+ if (count >= sizeof(buf))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (copy_from_user(buf, userbuf, count))
return -EFAULT;
- buf[count - 1] = '\0';
- if (!strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &val))
- gru_options = val;
+ buf[count] = '\0';
+ if (strict_strtoul(buf, 0, &gru_options))
+ return -EINVAL;
return count;
}
--
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