[PATCH] staging/lustre: Use proper number of bytes in copy_from_user

From: Oleg Drokin
Date: Mon Nov 21 2016 - 00:48:03 EST


From: Jian Yu <jian.yu@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch removes the usage of MAX_STRING_SIZE from
copy_from_user() and just copies enough bytes to cover
count passed in.

Signed-off-by: Jian Yu <jian.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/23462
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-8774
Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
index 8a2f02f3..db49992 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
@@ -400,10 +400,17 @@ int lprocfs_wr_uint(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
char dummy[MAX_STRING_SIZE + 1], *end;
unsigned long tmp;

- dummy[MAX_STRING_SIZE] = '\0';
- if (copy_from_user(dummy, buffer, MAX_STRING_SIZE))
+ if (count >= sizeof(dummy))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (count == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(dummy, buffer, count))
return -EFAULT;

+ dummy[count] = '\0';
+
tmp = simple_strtoul(dummy, &end, 0);
if (dummy == end)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.7.4