[PATCH RFC 18/22] macintosh/via-pmu: let procfs copy in writes to the options file

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Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date
2026-11-02 15:07:49
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Christian Brauner, 2026-11-02
Implement ->proc_write_buf() so procfs copies in what is written before
it pins the entry, and parse the option from that copy. Writes larger
than PAGE_SIZE - 1 bytes fail with -EINVAL now.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c
index 49f929ae10e4..079c085be5d2 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ static int pmu_options_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 }
 
 static ssize_t pmu_options_proc_write(struct file *file,
-		const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
+		char *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
 {
 	char tmp[33];
 	char *label, *val;
@@ -923,8 +923,7 @@ static ssize_t pmu_options_proc_write(struct file *file,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (count > 32)
 		count = 32;
-	if (copy_from_user(tmp, buffer, count))
-		return -EFAULT;
+	memcpy(tmp, buffer, count);
 	tmp[count] = 0;
 
 	label = tmp;
@@ -958,7 +957,7 @@ static ssize_t pmu_options_proc_write(struct file *file,
 
 static const struct proc_ops pmu_options_proc_ops = {
 	.proc_show	= pmu_options_proc_show,
-	.proc_write	= pmu_options_proc_write,
+	.proc_write_buf	= pmu_options_proc_write,
 };
 #endif
 
-- 
2.53.0
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