This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
thunderbolt: Remove superfluous check
to the 4.13-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:
thunderbolt-remove-superfluous-check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8fdd6ab36197ad891233572c57781b1f537da0ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bernat, Yehezkel" <yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:19:01 +0300
Subject: thunderbolt: Remove superfluous check
From: Bernat, Yehezkel <yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 8fdd6ab36197ad891233572c57781b1f537da0ac upstream.
The key size is tested by hex2bin() already (as '\0' isn't an hex digit)
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c
@@ -808,9 +808,6 @@ static ssize_t key_store(struct device *
u8 key[TB_SWITCH_KEY_SIZE];
ssize_t ret = count;
- if (count < 64)
- return -EINVAL;
-
if (hex2bin(key, buf, sizeof(key)))
return -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.13/thunderbolt-make-key-root-only-accessible.patch
queue-4.13/thunderbolt-remove-superfluous-check.patch
queue-4.13/thunderbolt-allow-clearing-the-key.patch