[patch] backlight: s6e63m0: corruption storing gamma mode
From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-02 06:56:21
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kernel-janitors
Subsystem:
backlight class/subsystem, framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Lee Jones, Daniel Thompson, Jingoo Han, Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds
strict_strtoul() writes a long but ->gamma_mode only has space to store an int, so on 64 bit systems we end up scribbling over ->gamma_table_count as well. I've changed it to use kstrtouint() instead. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/s6e63m0.c b/drivers/video/backlight/s6e63m0.c
index 9b0092e..e264f55 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/s6e63m0.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/s6e63m0.c@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ static ssize_t s6e63m0_sysfs_store_gamma_mode(struct device *dev, struct backlight_device *bd = NULL; int brightness, rc; - rc = strict_strtoul(buf, 0, (unsigned long *)&lcd->gamma_mode); + rc = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &lcd->gamma_mode); if (rc < 0) return rc;