From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: uevent buffer overflow in input layer
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:21:32 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138144893.4907.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124105857.GA9210@vrfy.org>
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@kernel.crashing.org>
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)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-22 23:43 uevent buffer overflow in input layer Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-24 5:03 ` Greg KH
2006-01-24 6:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-24 6:07 ` Greg KH
2006-01-24 10:58 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-24 23:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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