This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled driver core: bus: Return -EIO instead of 0 when show/store invalid bus attribute to the 6.1-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: driver-core-bus-return-eio-instead-of-0-when-show-st.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a53004b0b22ca54bdcdec9abe2043d52c715d21e Author: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 24 21:54:48 2024 +0800 driver core: bus: Return -EIO instead of 0 when show/store invalid bus attribute [ Upstream commit c0fd973c108cdc22a384854bc4b3e288a9717bb2 ] Return -EIO instead of 0 for below erroneous bus attribute operations: - read a bus attribute without show(). - write a bus attribute without store(). Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240724-bus_fix-v2-1-5adbafc698fb@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c index 7ca47e5b3c1f4..339a9edcde5f5 100644 --- a/drivers/base/bus.c +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ static ssize_t bus_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, { struct bus_attribute *bus_attr = to_bus_attr(attr); struct subsys_private *subsys_priv = to_subsys_private(kobj); - ssize_t ret = 0; + /* return -EIO for reading a bus attribute without show() */ + ssize_t ret = -EIO; if (bus_attr->show) ret = bus_attr->show(subsys_priv->bus, buf); @@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ static ssize_t bus_attr_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, { struct bus_attribute *bus_attr = to_bus_attr(attr); struct subsys_private *subsys_priv = to_subsys_private(kobj); - ssize_t ret = 0; + /* return -EIO for writing a bus attribute without store() */ + ssize_t ret = -EIO; if (bus_attr->store) ret = bus_attr->store(subsys_priv->bus, buf, count);