From b56a39ac263e5b8cafedd551a49c2105e68b98c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuanhan Liu Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:40:55 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size Just like what devkmsg_read() does, return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size, or it will trigger a segfault error. Acked-by: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/printk.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 572730bd8a5..a2276b91676 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); -- 2.41.0