strict_strto* is not strict enough
It decodes "\n" as 0, which is bad, because stray echo into backlight
will turn your backlight off, etc...
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 98d6322..0fbd012 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@
return -EINVAL;
val = simple_strtoul(cp, &tail, base);
+ if (tail == cp)
+ return -EINVAL;
if ((*tail == '\0') ||
((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) {
*res = val;
@@ -241,6 +243,8 @@
return -EINVAL;
val = simple_strtoull(cp, &tail, base);
+ if (tail == cp)
+ return -EINVAL;
if ((*tail == '\0') ||
((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) {
*res = val;
