printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size

Just like what devkmsg_read() does, return -EINVAL if the message len is
bigger than the buf size, or it will trigger a segfault error.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 572730b..a2276b9 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -880,7 +880,9 @@ static int syslog_print(char __user *buf, int size)
        syslog_seq++;
        raw_spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock);
 
-       if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
+       if (len > size)
+               len = -EINVAL;
+       else if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
                len = -EFAULT;
 
        kfree(text);