On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:04:16PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 4bd5ead82d4b877ebe41daf95f28cda53205b039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:55:10 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] phy: renesas: rcar-gen3-usb2: Fix sysfs interface of "role"
Since the role_store() uses strncmp(), it's possible to refer
out-of-memory if the sysfs data size is smaller than strlen("host").
This patch fixes it by using sysfs_streq() instead of strncmp().
Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: 9bb86777fb71 ("phy: rcar-gen3-usb2: add sysfs for usb role swap")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx>
Adjusted context and queued up for 4.14.
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Thanks,
Sasha
