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-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c65
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ba42694f045..8b5f4bb8ad2 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1624,32 +1624,14 @@ static ssize_t proc_writesys(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
return do_rw_proc(1, file, (char __user *) buf, count, ppos);
}
-/**
- * proc_dostring - read a string sysctl
- * @table: the sysctl table
- * @write: %TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file
- * @filp: the file structure
- * @buffer: the user buffer
- * @lenp: the size of the user buffer
- * @ppos: file position
- *
- * Reads/writes a string from/to the user buffer. If the kernel
- * buffer provided is not large enough to hold the string, the
- * string is truncated. The copied string is %NULL-terminated.
- * If the string is being read by the user process, it is copied
- * and a newline '\n' is added. It is truncated if the buffer is
- * not large enough.
- *
- * Returns 0 on success.
- */
-int proc_dostring(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
- void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+int _proc_do_string(void* data, int maxlen, int write, struct file *filp,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
size_t len;
char __user *p;
char c;
- if (!table->data || !table->maxlen || !*lenp ||
+ if (!data || !maxlen || !*lenp ||
(*ppos && !write)) {
*lenp = 0;
return 0;
@@ -1665,20 +1647,20 @@ int proc_dostring(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
break;
len++;
}
- if (len >= table->maxlen)
- len = table->maxlen-1;
- if(copy_from_user(table->data, buffer, len))
+ if (len >= maxlen)
+ len = maxlen-1;
+ if(copy_from_user(data, buffer, len))
return -EFAULT;
- ((char *) table->data)[len] = 0;
+ ((char *) data)[len] = 0;
*ppos += *lenp;
} else {
- len = strlen(table->data);
- if (len > table->maxlen)
- len = table->maxlen;
+ len = strlen(data);
+ if (len > maxlen)
+ len = maxlen;
if (len > *lenp)
len = *lenp;
if (len)
- if(copy_to_user(buffer, table->data, len))
+ if(copy_to_user(buffer, data, len))
return -EFAULT;
if (len < *lenp) {
if(put_user('\n', ((char __user *) buffer) + len))
@@ -1691,6 +1673,31 @@ int proc_dostring(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * proc_dostring - read a string sysctl
+ * @table: the sysctl table
+ * @write: %TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file
+ * @filp: the file structure
+ * @buffer: the user buffer
+ * @lenp: the size of the user buffer
+ * @ppos: file position
+ *
+ * Reads/writes a string from/to the user buffer. If the kernel
+ * buffer provided is not large enough to hold the string, the
+ * string is truncated. The copied string is %NULL-terminated.
+ * If the string is being read by the user process, it is copied
+ * and a newline '\n' is added. It is truncated if the buffer is
+ * not large enough.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success.
+ */
+int proc_dostring(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ return _proc_do_string(table->data, table->maxlen, write, filp,
+ buffer, lenp, ppos);
+}
+
/*
* Special case of dostring for the UTS structure. This has locks
* to observe. Should this be in kernel/sys.c ????