commit 2ca9bb456ada8bcbdc8f77f8fc78207653bbaa92
author Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Fri Jun 06 14:37:18 2014 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Fri Jun 06 16:08:13 2014 -0700
tree 05f8bd09ad6e9b24b735d7cf90c3167bade83050
parent f88083005ab319abba5d0b2e4e997558245493c8

sysctl: refactor sysctl string writing logic

Consolidate buffer length checking with new-line/end-of-line checking.
Additionally, instead of reading user memory twice, just do the
assignment during the loop.

This change doesn't affect the potential races here.  It was already
possible to read a sysctl that was in the middle of a write.  In both
cases, the string will always be NULL terminated.  The pre-existing race
remains a problem to be solved.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>