Invalid inputs such as these are currently reported in dmesg as
failing:
$> echo sweet > flags
[ 122.079139] flags_write: Invalid flags value: et
even though the 'flags' attribute has been updated correctly:
$> cat flags
sw
This is because userspace keeps writing the remaining buffer
until it encounters an error.
However, the input as a whole is wrong and we should not be
writing anything to the file. Therefore, correct flags_write()
to return -EINVAL immediately on bad input strings.
Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443190851-2172-2-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444641762-9437-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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