Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"

This reverts commit b56a39ac263e5b8cafedd551a49c2105e68b98c2.

A better patch from Jan will follow this to resolve the issue.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index d6a1412f6b09..ff05361962e1 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -880,9 +880,7 @@ static int syslog_print(char __user *buf, int size)
         syslog_seq++;
         raw_spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock);
 
-        if (len > size)
-                len = -EINVAL;
-        else if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
+        if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
                 len = -EFAULT;
 
         kfree(text);