linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Fail in ioctl I8K_BIOS_VERSION when bios version is not a number

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Date:	Sat, 18 Jun 2016 13:00:24 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
	Jan C Peters <jcpeters89@...il.com>,
	Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@...mhuis.info>,
	David Santamaría Rogado <howl.nsp@...il.com>,
	Peter Saunderson <peteasa@...il.com>,
	Tolga Cakir <cevelnet@...il.com>,
	"Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
	Mario_Limonciello@...l.com,
	Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>,
	Michał Kępień 
	<kernel@...pniu.pl>, Dakota Whipple <dakotajaywhipple@...il.com>,
	Leon Yu <leon@...nyu.net>
Cc:	linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Fail in ioctl I8K_BIOS_VERSION when
 bios version is not a number

On 06/17/2016 03:54 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> ABI of I8K_BIOS_VERSION ioctl can return only number. But new BIOS versions
> contain also other characters, which does not fit into that ABI. So in case
> of non digit values return -EINVAL.
>
> Reported-by: Mario Limonciello <Mario_Limonciello@...l.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>

Applied.

Guenter

> ---
>   drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c |    5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> index c43318d..480b2fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>   #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>   #include <linux/io.h>
>   #include <linux/sched.h>
> +#include <linux/ctype.h>
>
>   #include <linux/i8k.h>
>
> @@ -387,6 +388,10 @@ i8k_ioctl_unlocked(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>
>   	switch (cmd) {
>   	case I8K_BIOS_VERSION:
> +		if (!isdigit(bios_version[0]) || !isdigit(bios_version[1]) ||
> +		    !isdigit(bios_version[2]))
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +
>   		val = (bios_version[0] << 16) |
>   				(bios_version[1] << 8) | bios_version[2];
>   		break;
>