From: Peter Kalauskas <peskal@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c: fix bug storing backing_dev The call to strlcpy in backing_dev_store is incorrect. It should take the size of the destination buffer instead of the size of the source buffer. Additionally, ignore the newline character (\n) when reading the new file_name buffer. This makes it possible to set the backing_dev as follows: echo /dev/sdX > /sys/block/zram0/backing_dev The reason it worked before was the fact that strlcpy() copies 'len - 1' bytes, which is strlen(buf) - 1 in our case, so it accidentally didn't copy the trailing new line symbol. Which also means that "echo -n /dev/sdX" most likely was broken. Signed-off-by: Peter Kalauskas <peskal@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180813061623.GC64836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.14+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c~zram-fix-bug-storing-backing_dev +++ a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ static ssize_t backing_dev_store(struct struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len) { char *file_name; + size_t sz; struct file *backing_dev = NULL; struct inode *inode; struct address_space *mapping; @@ -357,7 +358,11 @@ static ssize_t backing_dev_store(struct goto out; } - strlcpy(file_name, buf, len); + strlcpy(file_name, buf, PATH_MAX); + /* ignore trailing newline */ + sz = strlen(file_name); + if (sz > 0 && file_name[sz - 1] == '\n') + file_name[sz - 1] = 0x00; backing_dev = filp_open(file_name, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE, 0); if (IS_ERR(backing_dev)) { _
