linux-kernel - [ 065/218] oprofile, s390: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to oprofilefs

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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:14:42 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Subject: [ 065/218] oprofile, s390: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to oprofilefs

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>

commit 81ff3478d9ba7f0b48b0abef740e542fd83adf79 upstream.

If oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() is called with count equals zero, *val
remains unchanged. Depending on the implementation it might be
uninitialized. Fixing users of oprofilefs_ulong_ from_user().

We missed these s390 changes with:

 913050b oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/s390/oprofile/init.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/oprofile/init.c
+++ b/arch/s390/oprofile/init.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static ssize_t hw_interval_write(struct
 	if (*offset)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
-	if (retval)
+	if (retval <= 0)
 		return retval;
 	if (val < oprofile_min_interval)
 		oprofile_hw_interval = oprofile_min_interval;
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static ssize_t hwsampler_zero_write(stru
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
-	if (retval)
+	if (retval <= 0)
 		return retval;
 	if (val != 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static ssize_t hwsampler_kernel_write(st
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
-	if (retval)
+	if (retval <= 0)
 		return retval;
 
 	if (val != 0 && val != 1)
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static ssize_t hwsampler_user_write(stru
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
-	if (retval)
+	if (retval <= 0)
 		return retval;
 
 	if (val != 0 && val != 1)
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static ssize_t timer_enabled_write(struc
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
-	if (retval)
+	if (retval <= 0)
 		return retval;
 
 	if (val != 0 && val != 1)


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