From 5666a274a6d54372d6b79b1f78682a9d827e679e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 18:37:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] driver core: fix driver_set_override() issue with empty
 strings

Python likes to send an empty string for some sysfs files, including the
driver_override field.  When commit 23d99baf9d72 ("PCI: Use
driver_set_override() instead of open-coding") moved the PCI core to use
the driver core function instead of hand-rolling their own handler, this
showed up as a regression from some userspace tools, like DPDK.

Fix this up by actually looking at the length of the string first
instead of trusting that userspace got it correct.

Fixes: 23d99baf9d72 ("PCI: Use driver_set_override() instead of open-coding")
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Tested-by: Huisong Li <lihuisong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901163734.3583106-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/base/driver.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index 15a75afe6b845..676b6275d5b53 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ int driver_set_override(struct device *dev, const char **override,
 	if (len >= (PAGE_SIZE - 1))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * Compute the real length of the string in case userspace sends us a
+	 * bunch of \0 characters like python likes to do.
+	 */
+	len = strlen(s);
+
 	if (!len) {
 		/* Empty string passed - clear override */
 		device_lock(dev);
-- 
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