From bd9b0bac6f601655044fc35978e26231dffee03e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "BP, Praveen" Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:39:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] sysctl: string length calculated is wrong if it contains negative numbers In the functions do_proc_dointvec() and do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(), there seems to be a bug in string length calculation if string contains negative integer. The console log given below explains the bug. Setting negative values may not be a right thing to do for "console log level" but then the test (given below) can be used to demonstrate the bug in the code. # echo "-1 -1 -1 -123456" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk # cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk -1 -1 -1 -1234 # # echo "-1 -1 -1 123456" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk # cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk -1 -1 -1 1234 # (akpm: the bug is that 123456 gets truncated) It works as expected if string contains all +ve integers # echo "1 2 3 4" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk # cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk 1 2 3 4 # The patch given below fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Praveen BP Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed