From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 08:37:31 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: bonding: don't cast const buf in sysfs store
X-Git-Tag: rel_imx_4.19.35_1.1.0~9508^2~294
X-Git-Url: https://git.somdevices.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5b3df177233ef4413ffc2c1a7647736ba89d4df1;p=linux.git

bonding: don't cast const buf in sysfs store

As was recently discussed [1], let's avoid casting the const buf in
bonding_sysfs_store_option and use kstrndup/kfree instead.

[1] http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/07/22/25

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index 6096440e96ea..35847250da5a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -160,14 +160,19 @@ static ssize_t bonding_sysfs_store_option(struct device *d,
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 	const struct bond_option *opt;
+	char *buffer_clone;
 	int ret;
 
 	opt = bond_opt_get_by_name(attr->attr.name);
 	if (WARN_ON(!opt))
 		return -ENOENT;
-	ret = bond_opt_tryset_rtnl(bond, opt->id, (char *)buffer);
+	buffer_clone = kstrndup(buffer, count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buffer_clone)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	ret = bond_opt_tryset_rtnl(bond, opt->id, buffer_clone);
 	if (!ret)
 		ret = count;
+	kfree(buffer_clone);
 
 	return ret;
 }