hwmon: Do not accept invalid name attributes
hwmon name attributes must not include '-', as specified in
Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. Also filter out spaces,
tabs, wildcards, and newline characters.
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index e176a43..a26c385 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#define HWMON_ID_PREFIX "hwmon"
#define HWMON_ID_FORMAT HWMON_ID_PREFIX "%d"
@@ -99,6 +100,10 @@
struct hwmon_device *hwdev;
int err, id;
+ /* Do not accept invalid characters in hwmon name attribute */
+ if (name && (!strlen(name) || strpbrk(name, "-* \t\n")))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
id = ida_simple_get(&hwmon_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
if (id < 0)
return ERR_PTR(id);