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authorPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>2014-06-17 17:30:23 -0400
committerPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>2014-06-17 17:30:23 -0400
commit170b5910d9fbea79de1bb40df22eda5f98250c0c (patch)
treeca9560e878d2842d45c6f99077d0d8b8f8b0f9ba /drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
parent47dd0b76ace953bd2c0479076db0d3e3b9594003 (diff)
parent1860e379875dfe7271c649058aeddffe5afd9d0d (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.15' into next
Linux 3.15
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index e176a43af63..a26c385a435 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 @@ hwmon_device_register_with_groups(struct device *dev, const char *name,
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);