[RESEND PATCH] libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()

From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
To: <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linuxarm@huawei.com>,
	<prime.zeng@huawei.com>, <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Subject: [RESEND PATCH] libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:25:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1605000324-7428-1-git-send-email-yangyicong@hisilicon.com> (raw)

The attr->set() receive a value of u64, but simple_strtoll() is used
for doing the conversion. It will lead to the error cast if user inputs
a negative value.

Use kstrtoull() instead of simple_strtoll() to convert a string got
from the user to an unsigned value. The former will return '-EINVAL' if
it gets a negetive value, but the latter can't handle the situation
correctly.

Fixes: f7b88631a897 ("fs/libfs.c: fix simple_attr_write() on 32bit machines")
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
---
 fs/libfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index fc34361..2dcf40e 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -977,7 +977,9 @@ ssize_t simple_attr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 		goto out;
 
 	attr->set_buf[size] = '\0';
-	val = simple_strtoll(attr->set_buf, NULL, 0);
+	ret = kstrtoull(attr->set_buf, 0, &val);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
 	ret = attr->set(attr->data, val);
 	if (ret == 0)
 		ret = len; /* on success, claim we got the whole input */
-- 
2.8.1

