This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: sd: change manage_start_stop to bool in sysfs interface
to the 4.4-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:
scsi-sd-change-manage_start_stop-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017
From: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:57:06 +0800
Subject: scsi: sd: change manage_start_stop to bool in sysfs interface
From: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 623401ee33e42cee64d333877892be8db02951eb ]
/sys/class/scsi_disk/0:2:0:0/manage_start_stop can be changed to 0
unexpectly by writing an invalid string.
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/sd.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -233,11 +233,15 @@ manage_start_stop_store(struct device *d
{
struct scsi_disk *sdkp = to_scsi_disk(dev);
struct scsi_device *sdp = sdkp->device;
+ bool v;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EACCES;
- sdp->manage_start_stop = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
+ if (kstrtobool(buf, &v))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ sdp->manage_start_stop = v;
return count;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/scsi-sd-change-allow_restart-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch
queue-4.4/scsi-sd-change-manage_start_stop-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch