This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/atm: fix proc_mpc_write incorrect return value
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-atm-fix-proc_mpc_write-incorrect-return-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3fbec01abd5c0178b56fa95345c48a72a01b3219
Author: Xiaobo Liu <cppcoffee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Oct 14 10:05:40 2022 +0800
net/atm: fix proc_mpc_write incorrect return value
[ Upstream commit d8bde3bf7f82dac5fc68a62c2816793a12cafa2a ]
Then the input contains '\0' or '\n', proc_mpc_write has read them,
so the return value needs +1.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Xiaobo Liu <cppcoffee@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/atm/mpoa_proc.c b/net/atm/mpoa_proc.c
index 2df34eb5d65f..3fd2aafa9a9e 100644
--- a/net/atm/mpoa_proc.c
+++ b/net/atm/mpoa_proc.c
@@ -219,11 +219,12 @@ static ssize_t proc_mpc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buff,
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;
- for (p = page, len = 0; len < nbytes; p++, len++) {
+ for (p = page, len = 0; len < nbytes; p++) {
if (get_user(*p, buff++)) {
free_page((unsigned long)page);
return -EFAULT;
}
+ len += 1;
if (*p == '\0' || *p == '\n')
break;
}
