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authorJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>2007-11-14 17:00:08 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-14 18:45:42 -0800
commit22800a2830ec07e7cc5c837999890ac47cc7f5de (patch)
tree48dbd0e712551d72ba9a6631797a38803a47b737 /kernel
parent9fcc2d15b14894aa53e5e8b7fd5d6e3ca558e5df (diff)
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fix param_sysfs_builtin name length check
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> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 16f269e9ddc9..2a4c51487e72 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -592,19 +592,16 @@ 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;