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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 3e214beabbe9..ac6847feaa83 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1717,21 +1717,18 @@ static int _proc_do_string(char *data, int maxlen, int write, } if (write) { + /* Start writing from beginning of buffer. */ len = 0; + *ppos += *lenp; p = buffer; - while (len < *lenp) { + while ((p - buffer) < *lenp && len < maxlen - 1) { if (get_user(c, p++)) return -EFAULT; if (c == 0 || c == '\n') break; - len++; + data[len++] = c; } - if (len >= maxlen) - len = maxlen-1; - if(copy_from_user(data, buffer, len)) - return -EFAULT; data[len] = 0; - *ppos += *lenp; } else { len = strlen(data); if (len > maxlen) |