Re: uevent buffer overflow in input layer

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

The buffer used for kobject uevent is too small for some of the events generated
by the input layer. Bump it to 2k.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Index: linux-work/lib/kobject_uevent.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/lib/kobject_uevent.c	2006-01-11 12:56:30.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/lib/kobject_uevent.c	2006-01-25 10:20:24.000000000 +1100
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <net/sock.h>
 
-#define BUFFER_SIZE	1024	/* buffer for the variables */
+#define BUFFER_SIZE	2048	/* buffer for the variables */
 #define NUM_ENVP	32	/* number of env pointers */
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG) && defined(CONFIG_NET)


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