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* [PATCH] usbip:usbip_common.c: check return value of sscanf
@ 2014-03-06 23:51 John de la Garza
  2014-03-07  0:17 ` Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: John de la Garza @ 2014-03-06 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: linux-usb, devel

Added code to check return value of sscanf.

Signed-off-by: John de la Garza <john@jjdev.com>
---
 drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c b/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c
index 4a2aab1..2a11233 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ static ssize_t usbip_debug_store(struct device *dev,
 				 struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf,
 				 size_t count)
 {
-	sscanf(buf, "%lx", &usbip_debug_flag);
+	if (sscanf(buf, "%lx", &usbip_debug_flag) != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
 	return count;
 }
 DEVICE_ATTR_RW(usbip_debug);
-- 
1.7.10.4


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* Re: [PATCH] usbip:usbip_common.c: check return value of sscanf
  2014-03-06 23:51 [PATCH] usbip:usbip_common.c: check return value of sscanf John de la Garza
@ 2014-03-07  0:17 ` Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joe Perches @ 2014-03-07  0:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John de la Garza; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-usb, devel

On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 15:51 -0800, John de la Garza wrote:
> Added code to check return value of sscanf.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c b/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c
[]
> @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ static ssize_t usbip_debug_store(struct device *dev,
>  				 struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf,
>  				 size_t count)
>  {
> -	sscanf(buf, "%lx", &usbip_debug_flag);
> +	if (sscanf(buf, "%lx", &usbip_debug_flag) != 1)
> +		return -EINVAL;

Generally, it's probably better to convert these
sscanf uses to kstrto<foo>, kstrtoul in this case.



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