Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix certificate thumbprint sysfs output

"Mark Pearson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.platform-driver-x86,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Thorsten,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026, at 8:05 AM, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> cert_thumbprint() already returns the accumulated output length, but
> certificate_thumbprint_show() adds that value to count again, making the
> next line use the wrong offset. Errors returned by cert_thumbprint() are
> also ignored and their negative values added to count.
>
> Assign the total length to count instead and propagate errors correctly.
>
> Fixes: b49f72e7f96d ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Certificate 
> authentication support")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c 
> b/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c
> index e215e86e3db7..441fca37b523 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/think-lmi.c
> @@ -745,6 +745,8 @@ static ssize_t certificate_thumbprint_show(struct 
> kobject *kobj, struct kobj_att
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> 
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(thumbtypes); i++) {
> +		ssize_t ret;
> +
>  		if (tlmi_priv.pwdcfg.core.password_mode >= 
> TLMI_PWDCFG_MODE_MULTICERT) {
>  			/* Format: 'SVC | SMC, Thumbtype' */
>  			wmistr = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s,%s",
> @@ -756,8 +758,12 @@ static ssize_t certificate_thumbprint_show(struct 
> kobject *kobj, struct kobj_att
>  		}
>  		if (!wmistr)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
> -		count += cert_thumbprint(buf, wmistr, count);
> +
> +		ret = cert_thumbprint(buf, wmistr, count);
>  		kfree(wmistr);
> +		if (ret < 0)
> +			return ret;
> +		count = ret;
>  	}
> 
>  	return count;
Looks good to me. Thanks for the fix.
Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <[email protected]>

Mark
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