[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>
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
index 63a9fbf..94b570a 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@
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);
}