Patch "scsi: sd: change allow_restart to bool in sysfs interface" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

scsi: sd: change allow_restart to bool in sysfs interface

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
scsi-sd-change-allow_restart-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: weiping zhang <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:56:44 +0800
Subject: scsi: sd: change allow_restart to bool in sysfs interface

From: weiping zhang <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 658e9a6dc1126f21fa417cd213e1cdbff8be0ba2 ]

/sys/class/scsi_disk/0:2:0:0/allow_restart can be changed to 0 unexpectedly by writing an invalid string such as the following:

echo asdf > /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:2:0:0/allow_restart

---
 drivers/scsi/sd.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ static ssize_t
 allow_restart_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 		    const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
+	bool v;
 	struct scsi_disk *sdkp = to_scsi_disk(dev);
 	struct scsi_device *sdp = sdkp->device;
 

@@ -266,7 +267,10 @@ allow_restart_store(struct device *dev,
 	if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK && sdp->type != TYPE_ZBC)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	sdp->allow_restart = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
+	if (kstrtobool(buf, &v))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	sdp->allow_restart = v;
 
 	return count;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/scsi-sd-change-allow_restart-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch queue-4.14/scsi-sd-change-manage_start_stop-to-bool-in-sysfs-interface.patch