Re: [PATCH] accel/ivpu: prevent uninitialized data bug in debugfs

From: Wachowski, Karol

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 02:06:43 EST


On 25-May-26 9:25, Wachowski, Karol wrote:
On 25-May-26 9:14, Dan Carpenter wrote:
The simple_write_to_buffer() will only initialize data starting from
the *pos offset so if it's non-zero then the first part of the buffer
uninitialized.  Really, if *pos is non-zero then this code won't work
so just check for that at the start of the function.

Fixes: 320323d2e545 ("accel/ivpu: Add debugfs interface for setting HWS priority bands")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_debugfs.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_debugfs.c b/drivers/accel/ivpu/ ivpu_debugfs.c
index 189dbe94cf14..dc20bc73c6ed 100644
--- a/drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_debugfs.c
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ priority_bands_fops_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf, size_t
      u32 band;
      int ret;
-    if (size >= sizeof(buf))
+    if (*pos != 0 || size >= sizeof(buf))
          return -EINVAL;
      ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, pos, user_buf, size);

Thanks for submission.

Reviewed-by: Karol Wachowski <karol.wachowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to drm-misc-fixes.