Commit fb442a6673ff for kernel
commit fb442a6673ff1046bf67754957d95880fdb394b5
Author: George Wilson <gcwilson@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri Aug 7 11:59:00 2026 -0500
powerpc/pseries: lparcfg - fix kbuf[] underflow
In lparcfg_write(), a count of 0 results in kbuf[] being indexed at -1.
Check for count == 0 in the existing check for count > sizeof(kbuf) and
return -EINVAL if true.
Fixes: 74422e2b1939 ("powerpc/pseries: Remove VLA from lparcfg_write()")
Acked-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: R Nageswara Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.20
Signed-off-by: George Wilson <gcwilson@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
index 54b7ecf375b5..3280b7968cab 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ static ssize_t lparcfg_write(struct file *file, const char __user * buf,
if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
return -EINVAL;
- if (count > sizeof(kbuf))
+ if (count == 0 || count > sizeof(kbuf))
return -EINVAL;
if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count))