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authorJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>2007-11-14 17:00:08 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-11-21 09:25:53 -0800
commit79d84e19d774dd71757b9dff90179ae593eaf550 (patch)
tree0c2ac7fd25375152e8ea4d7f4060e805e401b427 /kernel
parentfed521206dfc72e75c8307e7cde8475a65385d9d (diff)
fix param_sysfs_builtin name length check
patch 22800a2830ec07e7cc5c837999890ac47cc7f5de in mainline. Commit faf8c714f4508207a9c81cc94dafc76ed6680b44 caused a regression: parameter names longer than MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME will now be rejected, although we just need to keep the module name part that short. This patch restores the old behaviour while still avoiding that memchr is called with its length parameter larger than the total string length. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c15
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 8e8ca8fac4ff..1f17b581a191 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -591,19 +591,16 @@ static void __init param_sysfs_builtin(void)
for (i=0; i < __stop___param - __start___param; i++) {
char *dot;
- size_t kplen;
+ size_t max_name_len;
kp = &__start___param[i];
- kplen = strlen(kp->name);
+ max_name_len =
+ min_t(size_t, MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME, strlen(kp->name));
- /* We do not handle args without periods. */
- if (kplen > MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME) {
- DEBUGP("kernel parameter name is too long: %s\n", kp->name);
- continue;
- }
- dot = memchr(kp->name, '.', kplen);
+ dot = memchr(kp->name, '.', max_name_len);
if (!dot) {
- DEBUGP("couldn't find period in %s\n", kp->name);
+ DEBUGP("couldn't find period in first %d characters "
+ "of %s\n", MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME, kp->name);
continue;
}
name_len = dot - kp->name;