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Staging: silicom: use kstrtoint_from_user()

The main problem with the hand rolled code was that there weren't any
range checks so you could corrupt memory by writing too much data to
the proc file.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Cotey <puff65537@bansheeslibrary.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Dan Carpenter 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 10 additions and 22 deletions
  1. 10 22
      drivers/staging/silicom/bp_mod.c

+ 10 - 22
drivers/staging/silicom/bp_mod.c

@@ -8071,20 +8071,13 @@ int
 set_bypass_wd_pfs(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
 		  unsigned long count, void *data)
 {
-
-	char kbuf[256];
 	bpctl_dev_t *pbp_device_block = (bpctl_dev_t *) data;
+	int timeout;
+	int ret;
 
-	unsigned int timeout = 0;
-	char *timeout_ptr = kbuf;
-
-	if (copy_from_user(&kbuf, buffer, count)) {
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	timeout_ptr = kbuf;
-	timeout = atoi(&timeout_ptr);
-
+	ret = kstrtoint_from_user(buffer, count, 10, &timeout);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 	set_bypass_wd_fn(pbp_device_block, timeout);
 
 	return count;
@@ -8712,18 +8705,13 @@ int
 set_wd_autoreset_pfs(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
 		     unsigned long count, void *data)
 {
-	char kbuf[256];
 	bpctl_dev_t *pbp_device_block = (bpctl_dev_t *) data;
-	u32 timeout = 0;
-	char *timeout_ptr = kbuf;
-
-	if (copy_from_user(&kbuf, buffer, count)) {
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	timeout_ptr = kbuf;
-	timeout = atoi(&timeout_ptr);
+	int timeout;
+	int ret;
 
+	ret = kstrtoint_from_user(buffer, count, 10, &timeout);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 	set_wd_autoreset_fn(pbp_device_block, timeout);
 
 	return count;