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-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 572730bd8a5c..a2276b916769 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -880,7 +880,9 @@ static int syslog_print(char __user *buf, int size)
syslog_seq++;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock);
- if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
+ if (len > size)
+ len = -EINVAL;
+ else if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
len = -EFAULT;
kfree(text);