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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-04-14 16:44:42 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-04-14 16:44:42 +0200
commit740c699a8d316c8bf8593f19e2ca47795e690622 (patch)
treea78886955770a477945c5d84e06b2e7678733b54 /drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
parente69af4657e7764d03ad555f0b583d9c4217bcefa (diff)
parentc9eaa447e77efe77b7fa4c953bd62de8297fd6c5 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.15-rc1' into perf/urgent
Pick up the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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);