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Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:40:55 +0800
From:	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	wfg@...ux.intel.com, Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] 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.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/printk.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index d2ddb83..734e2a4 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -879,7 +879,9 @@ 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);
-- 
1.7.3.1

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