[PATCH] gpio: virtuser: Fix uninitialized data bug in gpio_virtuser_direction_do_write()
From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon May 25 2026 - 03:16:04 EST
If *ppos is non-zero then simple_write_to_buffer() won't initialize the
start of the buffer. Really, non-zero values for *ppos aren't going to
work at all. Check for that return -EINVAL at the start of the function.
Fixes: 91581c4b3f29 ("gpio: virtuser: new virtual testing driver for the GPIO API")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c
index 128520d340d4..846f8688fec5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static ssize_t gpio_virtuser_direction_do_write(struct file *file,
char buf[32], *trimmed;
int ret, dir, val = 0;
- if (count >= sizeof(buf))
+ if (*ppos != 0 || count >= sizeof(buf))
return -EINVAL;
ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count);
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ static ssize_t gpio_virtuser_consumer_write(struct file *file,
char buf[GPIO_VIRTUSER_NAME_BUF_LEN + 2];
int ret;
- if (count >= sizeof(buf))
+ if (*ppos != 0 || count >= sizeof(buf))
return -EINVAL;
ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, GPIO_VIRTUSER_NAME_BUF_LEN, ppos,
--
2.53.0