4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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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
@@ -234,11 +234,15 @@ 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;
}