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From: "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
To: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Alexander Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>,
	"Lee Jones" <lee@kernel.org>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"Mike Marciniszyn (Meta)" <mike.marciniszyn@gmail.com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>, "Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>,
	"Christian Marangi" <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 4/5] leds: trigger: netdev: Report invalid interval to user space
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:33:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027113349.383147-5-alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027113349.383147-1-alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>

From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>

interval_store() silently accepts out-of-range values: a write outside
the [5, 10000] ms bounds returns the full count as if it succeeded, yet
the interval is left unchanged.

Reject out-of-range values with -EINVAL instead.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 06f502f57d0d ("leds: trigger: Introduce a NETDEV trigger")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
---
Changelog:
v6:
- patch introduced

 drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-netdev.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-netdev.c b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-netdev.c
index bf9a5ec245a43..b1f84014acab9 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-netdev.c
@@ -502,12 +502,13 @@ static ssize_t interval_store(struct device *dev,
 		return ret;
 
 	/* impose some basic bounds on the timer interval */
-	if (value >= 5 && value <= 10000) {
-		cancel_delayed_work_sync(&trigger_data->work);
+	if (value < 5 || value > 10000)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
-		atomic_set(&trigger_data->interval, msecs_to_jiffies(value));
-		set_baseline_state(trigger_data);	/* resets timer */
-	}
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&trigger_data->work);
+
+	atomic_set(&trigger_data->interval, msecs_to_jiffies(value));
+	set_baseline_state(trigger_data);	/* resets timer */
 
 	return size;
 }
-- 
2.56.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-27 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-27 11:33 [PATCH v6 0/5] leds: trigger: netdev: fix sysfs_update_group() races A. Sverdlin
2026-10-27 11:33 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] leds: trigger: netdev: Put netdev on activate error path A. Sverdlin
2026-10-27 11:33 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] leds: trigger: netdev: Access net_dev under trigger_data->lock in the worker A. Sverdlin
2026-10-27 11:33 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] leds: trigger: netdev: Fix sysfs_update_group() races A. Sverdlin
2026-10-27 11:33 ` A. Sverdlin [this message]
2026-10-30 13:23   ` [PATCH v6 4/5] leds: trigger: netdev: Report invalid interval to user space Griffin Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-27 11:33 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] leds: trigger: netdev: Serialize mode/interval stores with trigger lock A. Sverdlin
2026-11-13 12:00 ` [PATCH v6 0/5] leds: trigger: netdev: fix sysfs_update_group() races Lee Jones

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