From 4c3bffc272755c98728c2b58b1a8148cf9e9fd1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:22:44 -0700
Subject: mm/backing-dev.c: check user buffer length before copying data to the
 related user buffer

'*lenp' may be less than "sizeof(kbuf)" so we must check this before the
next copy_to_user().

pdflush_proc_obsolete() is called by sysctl which 'procname' is
"nr_pdflush_threads", if the user passes buffer length less than
"sizeof(kbuf)", it will cause issue.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c')

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 37d9edcd14cf..ce682f7a4f29 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ int pdflush_proc_obsolete(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 {
 	char kbuf[] = "0\n";
 
-	if (*ppos) {
+	if (*ppos || *lenp < sizeof(kbuf)) {
 		*lenp = 0;
 		return 0;
 	}
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