The patch titled drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c: check strict_strtoul() return value has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-check-strict_strtoul-return-value.patch 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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c: check strict_strtoul() return value From: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@xxxxxxxxxx> It should check if strict_strtoul() succeeds. Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c~drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-check-strict_strtoul-return-value drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c --- a/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c~drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-check-strict_strtoul-return-value +++ a/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c @@ -212,7 +212,9 @@ static ssize_t adp5520_bl_daylight_max_s { struct adp5520_bl *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &data->cached_daylight_max); + if (strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &data->cached_daylight_max) < 0) + return -EINVAL; + return adp5520_store(dev, buf, count, ADP5520_DAYLIGHT_MAX); } static DEVICE_ATTR(daylight_max, 0664, adp5520_bl_daylight_max_show, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tailai.ly@xxxxxxxxxx are drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-check-strict_strtoul-return-value.patch drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-check-strict_strtoul-return-value-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html