From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:02:23 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~395^2^2~21
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5642f4bbae30122beb696e723f6da273caa570e;p=pandora-kernel.git

selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 00:05 -0400, Eamon Walsh wrote:
> Recent versions of coreutils have bumped the read buffer size from 4K to
> 32K in several of the utilities.
>
> This means that "cat /selinux/booleans/xserver_object_manager" no longer
> works, it returns "Invalid argument" on F11.  getsebool works fine.
>
> sel_read_bool has a check for "count > PAGE_SIZE" that doesn't seem to
> be present in the other read functions.  Maybe it could be removed?

Yes, that check is obsoleted by the conversion of those functions to
using simple_read_from_buffer(), which will reduce count if necessary to
what is available in the buffer.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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