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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Input: axp20x-pek - avoid needless newline removal
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:00:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202309251100.A187272A49@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230925-strncpy-drivers-input-misc-axp20x-pek-c-v2-1-ff7abe8498d6@google.com>

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 04:31:05AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> This code is doing more work than it needs to.
> 
> Before handing off `val_str` to `kstrtouint()` we are eagerly removing
> any trailing newline which requires copying `buf`, validating it's
> length and checking/replacing any potential newlines.
> 
> kstrtouint() handles this implicitly:
> kstrtouint ->
>   kstrotoull -> (documentation)
> |   /**
> |    * kstrtoull - convert a string to an unsigned long long
> |    * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
> |    *  include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
> |    ...
> 
> Let's remove the redundant functionality and let kstrtouint handle it.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

This looks much cleaner. Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-25 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-25  4:31 [PATCH v2] Input: axp20x-pek - avoid needless newline removal Justin Stitt
2023-09-25 18:00 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-09-26  3:10   ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2023-09-30 16:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov

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