Re: [PATCH 2/4] sparc: led: reject zero-length proc writes

[Andreas Larsson]

On 2026-03-30 08:29, Pengpeng Hou wrote:
> led_proc_write() passes count straight through memdup_user_nul() and then
> unconditionally inspects buf[count - 1] to strip a trailing newline. A
> zero-length write therefore dereferences one byte before the allocated
> buffer.
> 
> Reject empty writes before touching buf[count - 1].
> 
> Fixes: ee1858d3122d ("[SPARC]: Add sun4m LED driver.")
> Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/sparc/kernel/led.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c
> index f4fb82b019bb..b9758fdbc054 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c
> @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ static ssize_t led_proc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
>  {
>  	char *buf = NULL;
>  
> +	if (!count)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	if (count > LED_MAX_LENGTH)
>  		count = LED_MAX_LENGTH;
>  

I see no need to fail on the empty string in particular when further
down we have a default case:

	} else {
		auxio_set_led(AUXIO_LED_OFF);
	}

for any string not matching particular cases.

Instead, please stop the incorrect buffer access with something like:

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c
index f4fb82b019bb9..9b53ac1fe533d 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/led.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static ssize_t led_proc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
                return PTR_ERR(buf);
 
        /* work around \n when echo'ing into proc */
-       if (buf[count - 1] == '\n')
+       if (count > 0 && buf[count - 1] == '\n')
                buf[count - 1] = '\0';
 
        /* before we change anything we want to stop any running timers,

Thanks,
Andreas