The call to: size = simple_write_to_buffer(cmdbuf, sizeof(cmdbuf), ppos, buf, size); will succeed if at least one byte is written to the "cmdbuf" buffer. The "*ppos" value controls which byte is written. Another problem is that this code does not check for errors so it's possible for the entire buffer to be unintialized. Inintialize the struct to zero to prevent reading uninitialized stack data. Debugfs is normally only writable by root so the impact of this bug is very minimal. Fixes: 6cca83d498bd ("Platform: OLPC: move debugfs support from x86 EC driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The ec_dbgfs_cmd_write() function is not great. We could copy the data outside the lock for example. But that's outside the scope of this patch. drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c b/drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c index 4ff5c3a12991..921520475ff6 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c +++ b/drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static ssize_t ec_dbgfs_cmd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, int i, m; unsigned char ec_cmd[EC_MAX_CMD_ARGS]; unsigned int ec_cmd_int[EC_MAX_CMD_ARGS]; - char cmdbuf[64]; + char cmdbuf[64] = ""; int ec_cmd_bytes; mutex_lock(&ec_dbgfs_lock); -- 2.35.1