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SubjectRe: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] acpi_power_meter: Don't leak ACPI error codes to userspace
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:01:37 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> acpi-power-meter: Don't leak ACPI error codes to userspace
>
> If the ACPI methods return an error code, we must return -EINVAL to userspace
> to flag the error. Right now we pass the (positive) number right through,
> which causes echo to keep writing bogus values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

> ---
>
> drivers/acpi/power_meter.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
> index e6bfd77..2ef7030 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
> @@ -294,7 +294,11 @@ static int set_acpi_trip(struct acpi_power_meter_resource *resource)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - return data;
> + /* _PTP returns 0 on success, nonzero otherwise */
> + if (data)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + return 0;
> }
>
> static ssize_t set_trip(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *devattr,

--
Jean Delvare


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