The patch titled Subject: fault-injection: enhance failcmd to exit on non-hex address input has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is fault-injection-enhance-failcmd-to-exit-on-non-hex-address-input.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fault-injection-enhance-failcmd-to-exit-on-non-hex-address-input.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fault-injection: enhance failcmd to exit on non-hex address input Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:45:08 -0700 The failcmd.sh script in the fault-injection toolkit does not currently validate whether the provided address is in hexadecimal format. This can lead to silent failures if the address is sourced from places like `/proc/kallsyms`, which omits the '0x' prefix, potentially causing users to operate under incorrect assumptions. Introduce a new function, `exit_if_not_hex`, which checks the format of the provided address and exits with an error message if the address is not a valid hexadecimal number. This enhancement prevents users from running the command with improperly formatted addresses, thus improving the robustness and usability of the failcmd tool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240729084512.3349928-1-leitao@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh~fault-injection-enhance-failcmd-to-exit-on-non-hex-address-input +++ a/tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh @@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ ENVIRONMENT EOF } +exit_if_not_hex() { + local value="$1" + if ! [[ $value =~ ^0x[0-9a-fA-F]+$ ]]; then + echo "Error: The provided value '$value' is not a valid hexadecimal number." >&2 + exit 1 + fi +} + if [ $UID != 0 ]; then echo must be run as root >&2 exit 1 @@ -160,18 +168,22 @@ while true; do shift 2 ;; --require-start) + exit_if_not_hex "$2" echo $2 > $FAULTATTR/require-start shift 2 ;; --require-end) + exit_if_not_hex "$2" echo $2 > $FAULTATTR/require-end shift 2 ;; --reject-start) + exit_if_not_hex "$2" echo $2 > $FAULTATTR/reject-start shift 2 ;; --reject-end) + exit_if_not_hex "$2" echo $2 > $FAULTATTR/reject-end shift 2 ;; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from leitao@xxxxxxxxxx are failcmd-add-script-file-in-maintainers.patch fault-injection-enhance-failcmd-to-exit-on-non-hex-address-input.patch