High values are always wrong for netiucv's sysfs attribute "buffer". But the current code does not detect values between 2**31 and 2**32 as invalid. Choosing type "unsigned int" for variable "bs1" and making use of "kstrtouint()" improves the syntax checking for "buffer". Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c index 88b6e9c..2f0f391 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c @@ -1563,21 +1563,21 @@ static ssize_t buffer_write (struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, { struct netiucv_priv *priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev); struct net_device *ndev = priv->conn->netdev; - char *e; - int bs1; + unsigned int bs1; + int rc; IUCV_DBF_TEXT(trace, 3, __func__); if (count >= 39) return -EINVAL; - bs1 = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 0); + rc = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &bs1); - if (e && (!isspace(*e))) { - IUCV_DBF_TEXT_(setup, 2, "buffer_write: invalid char %02x\n", - *e); + if (rc == -EINVAL) { + IUCV_DBF_TEXT_(setup, 2, "buffer_write: invalid char %s\n", + buf); return -EINVAL; } - if (bs1 > NETIUCV_BUFSIZE_MAX) { + if ((rc == -ERANGE) || (bs1 > NETIUCV_BUFSIZE_MAX)) { IUCV_DBF_TEXT_(setup, 2, "buffer_write: buffer size %d too large\n", bs1); -- 2.8.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html