[PATCH] RTAS syscall - review request
Nathan Lynch
nathanl at austin.ibm.com
Thu Nov 13 03:50:38 EST 2003
Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> Nathan Lynch wrote:
>
>> static ssize_t ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_read(struct file *file, char __user
>> *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>> {
>> int n;
>> char *kbuf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> n = sprintf(buf, "%p %x\n", rtas_rmo_buf, RTAS_SYSCALL_MAX);
>
>
> ^^^ kbuf, right?
Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks.
Also, John, you probably want to use snprintf or some other way of
bounds-checking to avoid inadvertently overflowing the buffer.
Nathan
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