The buffer is set to 20 characters. If a caller write more characters, count is truncated to the max available space in "simple_write_to_buffer". To protect from OoB access, check that the input size fit into buffer and add a zero terminator after copy to the end of the copied data.
Signed-off-by: Markus Burri <markus.bu...@mt.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c index 83fe99861eb1..92ef05d3678d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c @@ -1734,10 +1734,15 @@ static ssize_t eeh_force_recover_write(struct file *filp, char buf[20]; int ret; - ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf), ppos, user_buf, count); + if (count >= sizeof(buf)) + return -EINVAL; + + ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count); if (!ret) return -EFAULT; + buf[ret] = '\0'; + /* * When PE is NULL the event is a "special" event. Rather than * recovering a specific PE it forces the EEH core to scan for failed -- 2.39.5