[PATCH] kernel/sysctl.c: If "count" including the terminating byte '\0' the write system call should retrun success.

[Sean Fu]

when the input argument "count" including the terminating byte "\0",
The write system call return EINVAL on proc file.
But it return success on regular file.

E.g. Writting two bytes ("1\0") to "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/rp_filter".
write(fd, "1\0", 2) return EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Sean Fu <fxinrong@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 19b62b5..c2b0594 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_conv(bool *negp,
unsigned long *lvalp,
        return 0;
 }

-static const char proc_wspace_sep[] = { ' ', '\t', '\n' };
+static const char proc_wspace_sep[] = { ' ', '\t', '\n', '\0' };

 static int __do_proc_dointvec(void *tbl_data, struct ctl_table *table,
                  int write, void __user *buffer,
-- 
2.1.2
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