linux-kernel - [PATCH] power, test_power: correctly handle empty writes

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Message-Id: <1450806216-22600-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:43:36 -0500
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	sre@...nel.org, dbaryshkov@...il.com, dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	john.stultz@...aro.org, cbouatmailru@...il.com,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] power, test_power: correctly handle empty writes

Writing 0 length data into test_power makes it access an invalid array
location and kill the system.

Fixes: f17ef9b2d ("power: Make test_power driver more dynamic.")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/power/test_power.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/power/test_power.c b/drivers/power/test_power.c
index 83c42ea..57246cd 100644
--- a/drivers/power/test_power.c
+++ b/drivers/power/test_power.c
@@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ static int map_get_value(struct battery_property_map *map, const char *key,
 	buf[MAX_KEYLENGTH-1] = '\0';
 
 	cr = strnlen(buf, MAX_KEYLENGTH) - 1;
+	if (cr < 0)
+		return def_val;
 	if (buf[cr] == '\n')
 		buf[cr] = '\0';
 
-- 
1.7.10.4

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