Re: [PATCH v10 8/9] proc: use human-readable values for hidehid

[Alexey Gladkov]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:52:55PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:14:53PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:28:28PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > +	if (!kstrtouint(param->string, base, &result.uint_32)) {
> > > > +		ctx->hidepid = result.uint_32;
> > > 
> > > This need to bounds-check the value with a call to valid_hidepid(), yes?
> > 
> > The kstrtouint returns 0 on success and -ERANGE on overflow [1].
> 
> No, I mean, hidepid cannot be just any uint32 value. It must be in the
> enum. Is that checked somewhere else? It looked like the call to
> valid_hidepid() was removed.

The valid_hidepid() is called after parsing the hidepid parameter value.
Yes, it can be called inside this condition.

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