android_kernel_motorola_sm6375/fs/sysfs
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Miao Xie 8118a859dc sysfs: fix off-by-one error in fill_read_buffer()
I found that there is a off-by-one problem in the following code.

Version:	2.6.24-rc2
File:		fs/sysfs/file.c:118-122
Function:	fill_read_buffer
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	count = ops->show(kobj, attr_sd->s_attr.attr, buffer->page);

	sysfs_put_active_two(attr_sd);

	BUG_ON(count > (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE);
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Because according to the specification of the sysfs and the implement of
the show methods, the show methods return the number of bytes which would
be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing null.So if the
return value of the show methods equals PAGE_SIZE - 1, the buffer is full
in fact.  And if the return value equals PAGE_SIZE, the resulting string
was already truncated,or buffer overflow occurred.

This patch fixes an off-by-one error in fill_read_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
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bin.c
dir.c sysfs: make sysfs_{get,put}_active() static 2007-10-30 21:52:33 -07:00
file.c sysfs: fix off-by-one error in fill_read_buffer() 2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
group.c
inode.c
Makefile
mount.c
symlink.c
sysfs.h sysfs: make sysfs_{get,put}_active() static 2007-10-30 21:52:33 -07:00