Patch "scsi: sd: change allow_restart to bool in sysfs interface" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    scsi: sd: change allow_restart to bool in sysfs interface

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scsi-sd-change-allow_restart-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017
From: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:56:44 +0800
Subject: scsi: sd: change allow_restart to bool in sysfs interface

From: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>


[ Upstream commit 658e9a6dc1126f21fa417cd213e1cdbff8be0ba2 ]

/sys/class/scsi_disk/0:2:0:0/allow_restart can be changed to 0
unexpectedly by writing an invalid string such as the following:

echo asdf > /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:2:0:0/allow_restart

Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/sd.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static ssize_t
 allow_restart_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 		    const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
+	bool v;
 	struct scsi_disk *sdkp = to_scsi_disk(dev);
 	struct scsi_device *sdp = sdkp->device;
 
@@ -268,7 +269,10 @@ allow_restart_store(struct device *dev,
 	if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	sdp->allow_restart = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
+	if (kstrtobool(buf, &v))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	sdp->allow_restart = v;
 
 	return count;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhangweiping@didichuxing.com are

queue-4.4/scsi-sd-change-allow_restart-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch
queue-4.4/scsi-sd-change-manage_start_stop-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch