4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 658e9a6dc1126f21fa417cd213e1cdbff8be0ba2 ] /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:2:0:0/allow_restart can be changed to 0 unexpectedly by writing an invalid string such as the following: echo asdf > /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:2:0:0/allow_restart 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 @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static ssize_t allow_restart_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { + bool v; struct scsi_disk *sdkp = to_scsi_disk(dev); struct scsi_device *sdp = sdkp->device; @@ -268,7 +269,10 @@ allow_restart_store(struct device *dev, if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK) return -EINVAL; - sdp->allow_restart = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10); + if (kstrtobool(buf, &v)) + return -EINVAL; + + sdp->allow_restart = v; return count; }