Re: [PATCH] thermal: Fix for setting the thermal zone mode to enable/disable
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:40:01 +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> Basically without this patch changing the mode of thermal zone
> is not possible as wrong string size is passed to strncmp.
Actually it is possible,
$ echo -n disabled > mode
works fine. But it fails without the -n, your patch would fix that.
Acked-by: Jean Delvare
Note that a quick grep suggests that drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c,
security/selinux/hooks.c and arch/m68k/sun3/prom/console.c suffer from
the same issue, if you want to fix them too.
> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap
> ---
> drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c |4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> index 220ce7e..96da1af 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> @@ -152,9 +152,9 @@ mode_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute
> *attr,
> if (!tz->ops->set_mode)
> return -EPERM;
>
> - if (!strncmp(buf, "enabled", sizeof("enabled")))
> + if (!strncmp(buf, "enabled", sizeof("enabled") - 1))
> result = tz->ops->set_mode(tz, THERMAL_DEVICE_ENABLED);
> - else if (!strncmp(buf, "disabled", sizeof("disabled")))
> + else if (!strncmp(buf, "disabled", sizeof("disabled") - 1))
> result = tz->ops->set_mode(tz, THERMAL_DEVICE_DISABLED);
> else
> result = -EINVAL;
--
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Re: [PATCH] thermal: Fix for setting the thermal zone mode to enable/disable
Hi Eric,
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:47:52 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Note that a quick grep suggests that drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c,
> > security/selinux/hooks.c and arch/m68k/sun3/prom/console.c suffer from
> > the same issue, if you want to fix them too.
>
> I do see that we use sizeof() for strings in the selinux code, but I
> don't see a place that it is a bug. If you see a bug let me know and
> I'd be happy to fix it!
My suspect is in sb_finish_set_opts():
if (strncmp(sb->s_type->name, "sysfs", sizeof("sysfs")) == 0)
If sb->s_type->name is exactly "sysfs", it will work, but if it only
starts with "sysfs" it won't. And if only exact matches are expected,
then strncmp is overkill and strcmp should be used instead.
Note that I don't know anything about the code so I might as well be
totally wrong.
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Re: [PATCH] thermal: Fix for setting the thermal zone mode to enable/disable
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:14:46 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 15:13, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:40:01 +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote: > >> Basically without this patch changing the mode of thermal zone > >> is not possible as wrong string size is passed to strncmp. > > > > Actually it is possible, > > $ echo -n disabled > mode > > works fine. But it fails without the -n, your patch would fix that. > > Now it ignores any extra characters. Are they always newlines? > > Now "echo -n disabledx > mode" will also "succeed". I guess this is considered good enough in practice, although I also don't like this use of strncmp. I'd prefer \n to be properly converted to \0 (by the sysfs layer itself) so that strict string comparisons can be done. I don't have the time to push this though, sorry. -- Jean Delvare ___ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
