From e899aa823ad74860a17b541b0ad38f513728923d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Machek Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:40:53 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] strict_strto* is not strict enough It decodes "\n" as 0, which is bad, because stray echo into backlight will turn your backlight off, etc... Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Cc: Yi Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/vsprintf.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index 98d632277ca8..0fbd0121d91d 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ int strict_strtoul(const char *cp, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res) return -EINVAL; val = simple_strtoul(cp, &tail, base); + if (tail == cp) + return -EINVAL; if ((*tail == '\0') || ((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) { *res = val; @@ -241,6 +243,8 @@ int strict_strtoull(const char *cp, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res) return -EINVAL; val = simple_strtoull(cp, &tail, base); + if (tail == cp) + return -EINVAL; if ((*tail == '\0') || ((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) { *res = val; -- 2.20.1