From: Jianyun Gao <[email protected]> When setting gc_percent via message, kstrtoul parses the input into an unsigned long, which is then implicitly truncated to u8 when passed to pcache_cache_set_gc_percent(). For example, value 266 (0x10A) silently truncates to 10 (0x0A), successfully bypassing the > 90 upper bound check in pcache_cache_set_gc_percent(), and setting a different value than the user intended.
Use kstrtou8 directly instead of kstrtoul, so that overflow values are properly rejected. Signed-off-by: Jianyun Gao <[email protected]> --- drivers/md/dm-pcache/dm_pcache.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/dm_pcache.c b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/dm_pcache.c index d5cfd162c063..645fc27d82ba 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/dm_pcache.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/dm_pcache.c @@ -439,13 +439,13 @@ static int dm_pcache_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv, char *result, unsigned int maxlen) { struct dm_pcache *pcache = ti->private; - unsigned long val; + u8 val; if (argc != 2) goto err; if (!strcasecmp(argv[0], "gc_percent")) { - if (kstrtoul(argv[1], 10, &val)) + if (kstrtou8(argv[1], 10, &val)) goto err; return pcache_cache_set_gc_percent(&pcache->cache, val); -- 2.34.1

