The "ival" variable needs to signed so that we don't read before the
start of the str[] array. This would only happen the user passed in a
module parameter that was just comprised of space characters.
Fixes: e80444ae4fc3 ("ipmi_si: Switch hotmod to use a platform device")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_hotmod.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_hotmod.c
b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_hotmod.c
index 1433055a9705..03140f6cdf6f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_hotmod.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_hotmod.c
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ static int hotmod_handler(const char *val, const struct
kernel_param *kp)
char *str = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL), *curr, *next;
int rv;
struct ipmi_plat_data h;
- unsigned int len, ival;
+ unsigned int len;
+ int ival;
if (!str)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.17.1
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