On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 09:09:41PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > There are a few issues in this code. If *ppos is non-zero then the > first part of the buffer is not initialized. We never initialize the > last character of the buffer. The return is not checked so it's > possible that none of the buffer is initialized. Thanks Dan. > > This is debugfs code which is root only and the impact of these bugs is > very small. However, it's still worth fixing. To fix this: > 1) Check that *ppos is zero. > 2) Use copy_from_user() instead of simple_write_to_buffer(). > 3) Explicitly add a NUL terminator. > > Fixes: e2b67859ab6e ("crypto: qat - add heartbeat error simulator") > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > .../crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_heartbeat_dbgfs.c | 11 ++++++----- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_heartbeat_dbgfs.c b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_heartbeat_dbgfs.c > index 5cd6c2d6f90a..cccdff24b48d 100644 > --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_heartbeat_dbgfs.c > +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_heartbeat_dbgfs.c > @@ -160,16 +160,17 @@ static ssize_t adf_hb_error_inject_write(struct file *file, > size_t count, loff_t *ppos) > { > struct adf_accel_dev *accel_dev = file->private_data; > - size_t written_chars; > char buf[3]; > int ret; > > /* last byte left as string termination */ > - if (count != 2) > + if (*ppos != 0 || count != 2) Is this alone not sufficient to fix the problem? Probably I'm missing something. The function just checks the first character in buf. Anyway, looks correct to me. Reviewed-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@xxxxxxxxx> Regards, -- Giovanni