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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2011-04-12 19:13:31 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-04-19 20:00:48 -0400
commit70a5f52165bd04cf3b33f30d5d234be28dcf29d4 (patch)
tree5cccc910017e5ff7131a68f47865a998cd7cc9f3 /drivers/char/mem.c
parent7e5b58bcbcb3d7518389c1d82fb6e926f5a9f72c (diff)
kmsg: properly support writev to avoid interleaved printk lines fix
make `len' size_t, avoid multiple-assignments. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/mem.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/mem.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 78923a9f5345..8fc04b4f311f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -810,11 +810,11 @@ static ssize_t kmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
810 unsigned long count, loff_t pos) 810 unsigned long count, loff_t pos)
811{ 811{
812 char *line, *p; 812 char *line, *p;
813 int len, i; 813 int i;
814 ssize_t ret = -EFAULT; 814 ssize_t ret = -EFAULT;
815 size_t len = iov_length(iv, count);
815 816
816 len = iov_length(iv, count); 817 line = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
817 line = p = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
818 if (line == NULL) 818 if (line == NULL)
819 return -ENOMEM; 819 return -ENOMEM;
820 820
@@ -822,6 +822,7 @@ static ssize_t kmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
822 * copy all vectors into a single string, to ensure we do 822 * copy all vectors into a single string, to ensure we do
823 * not interleave our log line with other printk calls 823 * not interleave our log line with other printk calls
824 */ 824 */
825 p = line;
825 for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { 826 for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
826 if (copy_from_user(p, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len)) 827 if (copy_from_user(p, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len))
827 goto out; 828 goto out;