[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
index 63a9fbf1ac51..94b570ad037d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ static int devices_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
                                  int count, int *eof, void *data)
 {
         int len = get_chrdev_list(page);
-        len += get_blkdev_list(page+len);
+        len += get_blkdev_list(page+len, len);
         return proc_calc_metrics(page, start, off, count, eof, len);
 }