From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: jorge.lopez2@hp.com, hansg@kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: return -E2BIG from validate_password_input()
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:30:18 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260930183018.49629-4-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930183018.49629-1-meatuni001@gmail.com>
validate_password_input() returns the positive INVALID_BIOS_AUTH on
rejection. store_password_instance() skips the store on nonzero ret,
but its final "return ret < 0 ? ret : count" treats the positive value
as success, so userspace sees count instead of an error.
Return -E2BIG for an invalid password length.
Tested on HP EliteBook 840 G2 (Fedora 44, Linux 7.2.7): writing 999
bytes to current_password returned 999 before this change.
Fixes: 8646a3b5ee3a ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: passwdobj-attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Return -E2BIG instead of -ERANGE (Andy)
Changes in v2:
- New patch
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c
index a9e1786..3f4c45d 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c
@@ -70,12 +70,13 @@ static int validate_password_input(int instance_id, const char *buf)
length--;
if (length > MAX_PASSWD_SIZE)
- return INVALID_BIOS_AUTH;
+ return -E2BIG;
if (password_data->min_password_length > length ||
password_data->max_password_length < length)
- return INVALID_BIOS_AUTH;
- return SUCCESS;
+ return -E2BIG;
+
+ return 0;
}
ATTRIBUTE_N_PROPERTY_SHOW(is_enabled, password);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 18:30 [PATCH v3 0/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: string buffer and password fixes Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-30 18:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix OOB reads in hp_get_string_from_buffer() Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-30 18:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix non-ASCII truncation " Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-30 18:30 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-09-30 18:38 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: string buffer and password fixes Muhammad Bilal
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