This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled leds: do not overflow sysfs buffer in led_trigger_show to the 3.18-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: leds-do-not-overflow-sysfs-buffer-in-led_trigger_show.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3b9b95363c45365d606ad4bbba16acca75fdf6d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:20:14 -0500 Subject: leds: do not overflow sysfs buffer in led_trigger_show From: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx> commit 3b9b95363c45365d606ad4bbba16acca75fdf6d3 upstream. Per the documentation, use scnprintf instead of sprintf to ensure there is never more than PAGE_SIZE bytes of trigger names put into the buffer. Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/leds/led-triggers.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c +++ b/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c @@ -78,21 +78,23 @@ ssize_t led_trigger_show(struct device * down_read(&led_cdev->trigger_lock); if (!led_cdev->trigger) - len += sprintf(buf+len, "[none] "); + len += scnprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len, "[none] "); else - len += sprintf(buf+len, "none "); + len += scnprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len, "none "); list_for_each_entry(trig, &trigger_list, next_trig) { if (led_cdev->trigger && !strcmp(led_cdev->trigger->name, trig->name)) - len += sprintf(buf+len, "[%s] ", trig->name); + len += scnprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len, "[%s] ", + trig->name); else - len += sprintf(buf+len, "%s ", trig->name); + len += scnprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len, "%s ", + trig->name); } up_read(&led_cdev->trigger_lock); up_read(&triggers_list_lock); - len += sprintf(len+buf, "\n"); + len += scnprintf(len+buf, PAGE_SIZE - len, "\n"); return len; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(led_trigger_show); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx are queue-3.18/leds-do-not-overflow-sysfs-buffer-in-led_trigger_show.patch