[PATCH] Backlight/LCD Class: Fix sysfs _store error handling
The backlight and LCD class _store functions currently accept values like "34
some random strings" without error. This corrects them to return -EINVAL if
the value is not numeric with an optional byte of trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index 334b1db..27597c5 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -29,12 +29,15 @@
static ssize_t backlight_store_power(struct class_device *cdev, const char *buf, size_t count)
{
- int rc = -ENXIO, power;
+ int rc = -ENXIO;
char *endp;
struct backlight_device *bd = to_backlight_device(cdev);
+ int power = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 0);
+ size_t size = endp - buf;
- power = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 0);
- if (*endp && !isspace(*endp))
+ if (*endp && isspace(*endp))
+ size++;
+ if (size != count)
return -EINVAL;
down(&bd->sem);
@@ -65,12 +68,15 @@
static ssize_t backlight_store_brightness(struct class_device *cdev, const char *buf, size_t count)
{
- int rc = -ENXIO, brightness;
+ int rc = -ENXIO;
char *endp;
struct backlight_device *bd = to_backlight_device(cdev);
+ int brightness = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 0);
+ size_t size = endp - buf;
- brightness = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 0);
- if (*endp && !isspace(*endp))
+ if (*endp && isspace(*endp))
+ size++;
+ if (size != count)
return -EINVAL;
down(&bd->sem);