Whenever user has changed an Admin/System Password using the sysfs,
then we are automatically copying the new password to existing
password field.
Co-developed-by: Divya Bharathi <divya.bharathi@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Divya Bharathi <divya.bharathi@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Prasanth KSR <prasanth.ksr@xxxxxxxx>
---
.../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passwordattr-interface.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passwordattr-interface.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passwordattr-interface.c
index 339a082d6c18..86ec962aace9 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passwordattr-interface.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passwordattr-interface.c
@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ int set_new_password(const char *password_type, const char *new)
print_hex_dump_bytes("set new password data: ", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, buffer, buffer_size);
ret = call_password_interface(wmi_priv.password_attr_wdev, buffer, buffer_size);
- /* clear current_password here and use user input from wmi_priv.current_password */
+ /* on success copy the new password to current password */
if (!ret)
- memset(current_password, 0, MAX_BUFF);
+ strscpy(current_password, new, MAX_BUFF);
/* explain to user the detailed failure reason */
else if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
dev_err(&wmi_priv.password_attr_wdev->dev, "admin password must be configured\n");
--
2.25.1
