Re: uevent buffer overflow in input layer

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Jan 24 2006 - 18:19:52 EST


The buffer used for kobject uevent is too small for some of the events generated
by the input layer. Bump it to 2k.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Index: linux-work/lib/kobject_uevent.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/lib/kobject_uevent.c 2006-01-11 12:56:30.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/lib/kobject_uevent.c 2006-01-25 10:20:24.000000000 +1100
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <net/sock.h>

-#define BUFFER_SIZE 1024 /* buffer for the variables */
+#define BUFFER_SIZE 2048 /* buffer for the variables */
#define NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */

#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG) && defined(CONFIG_NET)


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