mfd: intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc: 64 bit bug in bxtwc_val_store()
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:56:36 +0000 (12:56 +0300)
committerLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:19:47 +0000 (17:19 +0000)
The call to kstrtoul() will corrupt memory on 64 bit systems because an
int is 4 bytes and a long is 8.

Also it's not a good idea to let users trigger a dev_err() because it
just ends up flooding /var/log/messages so I removed the printk.

Fixes: 2ddd2086ea9c ('mfd: add Intel Broxton Whiskey Cove PMIC driver')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc.c

index 40acaff2e1c3c836292e05d4bd2e86a13abd607f..b9428767e6152df39e3e74fde97fb585eb8c2075 100644 (file)
@@ -297,10 +297,9 @@ static ssize_t bxtwc_val_store(struct device *dev,
        unsigned int val;
        struct intel_soc_pmic *pmic = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 
-       if (kstrtoul(buf, 0, (unsigned long *)&val)) {
-               dev_err(dev, "Invalid register value\n");
-               return -EINVAL;
-       }
+       ret = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &val);
+       if (ret)
+               return ret;
 
        ret = regmap_write(pmic->regmap, bxtwc_reg_addr, val);
        if (ret) {