The following commit has been merged in the linux branch: commit 4230020c42457e51c98636a328c60e9f3744152c Author: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Date: Sat Jan 2 11:30:52 2010 +0100
Staging: batman-adv: Dont deactivate aggregation on wrong input
A non-integer changes the aggregation mode. Therefore this patch changes the behaviour to explicitly check strict_strtoul()'s return code.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@web.de Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@suse.de
diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/proc.c b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/proc.c index 4d19935..68c36b0 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/proc.c +++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/proc.c @@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_aggr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, char *aggr_string; int not_copied = 0; unsigned long aggregation_enabled_tmp; + int retval;
aggr_string = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -436,22 +437,21 @@ static ssize_t proc_aggr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, not_copied = copy_from_user(aggr_string, buffer, count); aggr_string[count - not_copied - 1] = 0;
- strict_strtoul(aggr_string, 10, &aggregation_enabled_tmp); + retval = strict_strtoul(aggr_string, 10, &aggregation_enabled_tmp);
- if ((aggregation_enabled_tmp != 0) && (aggregation_enabled_tmp != 1)) { + if (retval || aggregation_enabled_tmp > 1) { printk(KERN_ERR "batman-adv:Aggregation can only be enabled (1) or disabled (0), given value: %li\n", aggregation_enabled_tmp); - goto end; + } else { + printk(KERN_INFO "batman-adv:Changing aggregation from: %s (%i) to: %s (%li)\n", + (atomic_read(&aggregation_enabled) == 1 ? + "enabled" : "disabled"), + atomic_read(&aggregation_enabled), + (aggregation_enabled_tmp == 1 ? "enabled" : "disabled"), + aggregation_enabled_tmp); + atomic_set(&aggregation_enabled, + (unsigned)aggregation_enabled_tmp); }
- printk(KERN_INFO "batman-adv:Changing aggregation from: %s (%i) to: %s (%li)\n", - (atomic_read(&aggregation_enabled) == 1 ? - "enabled" : "disabled"), - atomic_read(&aggregation_enabled), - (aggregation_enabled_tmp == 1 ? "enabled" : "disabled"), - aggregation_enabled_tmp); - - atomic_set(&aggregation_enabled, (unsigned)aggregation_enabled_tmp); -end: kfree(aggr_string); return count; }