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-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
index ac043ec2b8dc..9f9236bf62d2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
@@ -26,10 +26,13 @@
/*
* This limit exists to prevent OOMs when the user process stops reading.
+ * If usbmon were available to unprivileged processes, it might be open
+ * to a local DoS. But we have to keep to root in order to prevent
+ * password sniffing from HID devices.
*/
-#define EVENT_MAX 25
+#define EVENT_MAX (2*PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct mon_event_text))
-#define PRINTF_DFL 130
+#define PRINTF_DFL 160
struct mon_event_text {
struct list_head e_link;
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ static inline char mon_text_get_data(struct mon_event_text *ep, struct urb *urb,
* number of corner cases, but it seems that the following is
* more or less safe.
*
- * We do not even try to look transfer_buffer, because it can
+ * We do not even try to look at transfer_buffer, because it can
* contain non-NULL garbage in case the upper level promised to
* set DMA for the HCD.
*/