Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartosz Golaszewski <> | Date | Wed, 31 May 2017 12:52:13 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] gpio: mockup: improve the debugfs input sanitization |
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2017-05-30 20:52 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote: >> We're currently only checking the first character of the input to the >> debugfs event files, so a string like '0sdfdsf' is valid and indicates >> a falling edge event. >> >> Be more strict and only allow '0', '1', '0\n' & '1\n'. >> >> While we're at it: move the sanitization code before the irq_enabled >> check so that we indicate an error on invalid input even if nobody is >> waiting for events. > >> - int val; >> - char buf; >> + int rv, val; > >> + rv = kstrtoint_from_user(usr_buf, size, 0, &val); >> + if (rv) >> + return rv; > >> + if (val != 0 && val != 1) > > Wouldn't be easier to have > > u8 rv; > > ret = kstrtu8_from_user(); > if (ret >= 2) > return ...; > > ?
kstrtu8_from_user() doesn't return the converted value, so you won't skip an if anyway and by using the int variant, we're avoiding a cast. I'd prefer it this way frankly.
Thanks, Bartosz
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