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nvram: Fix write beyond end condition; prove to gcc copy is safe
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:48:23 +0000 (15:48 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:50:34 +0000 (13:50 -0700)
commit8f0b4f678e7f82e415413643a22604925929a157
treef97e49299036bcae6dbe8cca78883a6a42f0a2f9
parentad41f4ca566224862fea37c46acd1af8620b6394
nvram: Fix write beyond end condition; prove to gcc copy is safe

commit a01c7800420d2c294ca403988488a635d4087a6d upstream.

In nvram_write, first of all, correctly handle the case where the file
pointer is already beyond the end; we should return EOF in that case.

Second, make the logic a bit more explicit so that gcc can statically
prove that the copy_from_user() is safe.  Once the condition of the
beyond-end filepointer is eliminated, the copy is safe but gcc can't
prove it, causing build failures for i386 allyesconfig.

Third, eliminate the entirely superfluous variable "len", and just use
the passed-in variable "count" instead.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/char/nvram.c