On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:25:24 +0800 Yicong Yang <yangyic...@hisilicon.com> wrote:

> The attr->set() receive a value of u64, but simple_strtoll() is used
> for doing the conversion. It will lead to the error cast if user inputs
> a negative value.
> 
> Use kstrtoull() instead of simple_strtoll() to convert a string got
> from the user to an unsigned value. The former will return '-EINVAL' if
> it gets a negetive value, but the latter can't handle the situation
> correctly.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/fs/libfs.c
> +++ b/fs/libfs.c
> @@ -977,7 +977,9 @@ ssize_t simple_attr_write(struct file *file, const char 
> __user *buf,
>               goto out;
>  
>       attr->set_buf[size] = '\0';
> -     val = simple_strtoll(attr->set_buf, NULL, 0);
> +     ret = kstrtoull(attr->set_buf, 0, &val);
> +     if (ret)
> +             goto out;
>       ret = attr->set(attr->data, val);
>       if (ret == 0)
>               ret = len; /* on success, claim we got the whole input */

kstrtoull() takes an `unsigned long long *', but `val' is a u64.

I think this probably works OK on all architectures (ie, no 64-bit
architectures are using `unsigned long' for u64).  But perhaps `val'
should have type `unsigned long long'?

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