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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> | 2005-06-23 00:09:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-23 09:45:19 -0700 |
| commit | ac20427ef6aa63da663bdc88b71d16f7394f5e23 (patch) | |
| tree | 49ba4f88c5cea42d59b386c508174f585efc8a01 /fs/char_dev.c | |
| parent | 3bc1ee3e8f1c05c0f64a479c6d56eb34a6190599 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ac20427ef6aa63da663bdc88b71d16f7394f5e23.tar.gz lwn-ac20427ef6aa63da663bdc88b71d16f7394f5e23.zip | |
[PATCH] add check to /proc/devices read routines
Patch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads
of /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096
bytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and
block devices in a system
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/char_dev.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c index c1e3537909fc..e82aac9cc2f5 100644 --- a/fs/char_dev.c +++ b/fs/char_dev.c @@ -56,10 +56,21 @@ int get_chrdev_list(char *page) down(&chrdevs_lock); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(chrdevs) ; i++) { - for (cd = chrdevs[i]; cd; cd = cd->next) + for (cd = chrdevs[i]; cd; cd = cd->next) { + /* + * if the current name, plus the 5 extra characters + * in the device line for this entry + * would run us off the page, we're done + */ + if ((len+strlen(cd->name) + 5) >= PAGE_SIZE) + goto page_full; + + len += sprintf(page+len, "%3d %s\n", cd->major, cd->name); + } } +page_full: up(&chrdevs_lock); return len; |