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authorDave Airlie <airlied@starflyer.(none)>2006-01-03 18:18:01 +1100
committerDave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>2006-01-03 18:18:01 +1100
commit97f2aab6698f3ab2552c41c1024a65ffd0763a6d (patch)
treebb6e3b2949459f54f884c710fc74d40eef00d834 /kernel/sysctl.c
parentd985c1088146607532093d9eaaaf99758f6a4d21 (diff)
parent88026842b0a760145aa71d69e74fbc9ec118ca44 (diff)
drm: merge in Linus mainline
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c29
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 9990e10192e8..b53115b882e1 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2192,29 +2192,32 @@ int sysctl_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen, void **context)
{
- size_t l, len;
-
if (!table->data || !table->maxlen)
return -ENOTDIR;
if (oldval && oldlenp) {
- if (get_user(len, oldlenp))
+ size_t bufsize;
+ if (get_user(bufsize, oldlenp))
return -EFAULT;
- if (len) {
- l = strlen(table->data);
- if (len > l) len = l;
- if (len >= table->maxlen)
+ if (bufsize) {
+ size_t len = strlen(table->data), copied;
+
+ /* This shouldn't trigger for a well-formed sysctl */
+ if (len > table->maxlen)
len = table->maxlen;
- if(copy_to_user(oldval, table->data, len))
- return -EFAULT;
- if(put_user(0, ((char __user *) oldval) + len))
+
+ /* Copy up to a max of bufsize-1 bytes of the string */
+ copied = (len >= bufsize) ? bufsize - 1 : len;
+
+ if (copy_to_user(oldval, table->data, copied) ||
+ put_user(0, (char __user *)(oldval + copied)))
return -EFAULT;
- if(put_user(len, oldlenp))
+ if (put_user(len, oldlenp))
return -EFAULT;
}
}
if (newval && newlen) {
- len = newlen;
+ size_t len = newlen;
if (len > table->maxlen)
len = table->maxlen;
if(copy_from_user(table->data, newval, len))
@@ -2223,7 +2226,7 @@ int sysctl_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
len--;
((char *) table->data)[len] = 0;
}
- return 0;
+ return 1;
}
/*