linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Process WARN, INFO options of debug levels from user

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2015 22:08:45 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Chandra S Gorentla <csgorentla@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, johnny.kim@...el.com,
	rachel.kim@...el.com, dean.lee@...el.com, chris.park@...el.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Process WARN, INFO options of debug
 levels from user

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:05:58PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote:
> -	if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count)) {
> +	ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buffer, sizeof(buffer), ppos, buf, count);

This part doesn't make sense.  Use copy_from_user().  Also it's not NUL
terminated so it leads to a read past the end of the array later.  In
the original code, we just looked at the first char and didn't use
kstrtoint() so we didn't care about NUL termination.

regards,
dan carpenter
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