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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-14 12:36:46 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-14 12:36:46 -0800
commit75b08038ceb62f3bd8935346679920f97c3cf9f6 (patch)
tree66cbc62bb569996c90877bbf010285828f669c9a /drivers/char
parentfb1beb29b5c531b12485d7c32174a77120590481 (diff)
parent70fe440718d9f42bf963c2cffe12008eb5556165 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, mce: Clean up thermal init by introducing intel_thermal_supported() x86, mce: Thermal monitoring depends on APIC being enabled x86: Gart: fix breakage due to IOMMU initialization cleanup x86: Move swiotlb initialization before dma32_free_bootmem x86: Fix build warning in arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c x86: Remove usedac in feature-removal-schedule.txt x86: Fix duplicated UV BAU interrupt vector nvram: Fix write beyond end condition; prove to gcc copy is safe mm: Adjust do_pages_stat() so gcc can see copy_from_user() is safe x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages x86: Remove enabling x2apic message for every CPU doc: Add documentation for bootloader_{type,version} x86, msr: Add support for non-contiguous cpumasks x86: Use find_e820() instead of hard coded trampoline address x86, AMD: Fix stale cpuid4_info shared_map data in shared_cpu_map cpumasks Trivial percpu-naming-introduced conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/nvram.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
index 4008e2ce73c1..fdbcc9fd6d31 100644
--- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
@@ -264,10 +264,16 @@ static ssize_t nvram_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
unsigned char contents[NVRAM_BYTES];
unsigned i = *ppos;
unsigned char *tmp;
- int len;
- len = (NVRAM_BYTES - i) < count ? (NVRAM_BYTES - i) : count;
- if (copy_from_user(contents, buf, len))
+ if (i >= NVRAM_BYTES)
+ return 0; /* Past EOF */
+
+ if (count > NVRAM_BYTES - i)
+ count = NVRAM_BYTES - i;
+ if (count > NVRAM_BYTES)
+ return -EFAULT; /* Can't happen, but prove it to gcc */
+
+ if (copy_from_user(contents, buf, count))
return -EFAULT;
spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock);
@@ -275,7 +281,7 @@ static ssize_t nvram_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (!__nvram_check_checksum())
goto checksum_err;
- for (tmp = contents; count-- > 0 && i < NVRAM_BYTES; ++i, ++tmp)
+ for (tmp = contents; count--; ++i, ++tmp)
__nvram_write_byte(*tmp, i);
__nvram_set_checksum();