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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-06-26 12:35:24 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-06-26 12:35:24 -0700 |
commit | 6fda135c908d0f38a0167adcbd71094572e3059b (patch) | |
tree | c0583c05c9706e15535ba851076c3aeee02ed0d4 /kernel/printk.c | |
parent | 4661e3568a7d14a93d4e428d246cdb86f4bac6e7 (diff) | |
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Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"
This reverts commit b56a39ac263e5b8cafedd551a49c2105e68b98c2.
A better patch from Jan will follow this to resolve the issue.
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index d6a1412..ff05361 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -880,9 +880,7 @@ static int syslog_print(char __user *buf, int size) syslog_seq++; raw_spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock); - if (len > size) - len = -EINVAL; - else if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len)) + if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len)) len = -EFAULT; kfree(text); |