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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-21 00:51:16 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-21 05:52:09 +0100
commit4503efd0891c40e30928afb4b23dc3f99c62a6b2 (patch)
treeb92d71b333e30f90b4a91a4e4bea895f5489a6ae /fs
parentPNP: fix broken pnp lowercasing for acpi module aliases (diff)
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sysfs: fix problems with binary files
Some sysfs binary files don't like having 0 passed to them as a size. Fix this up at the root by just returning to the vfs if userspace asks us for a zero sized buffer. Thanks to Pavel Roskin for pointing this out. Reported-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/bin.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
index 66f6e58a7e4b..f2c478c3424e 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf, size_t bytes, loff_t *off)
int count = min_t(size_t, bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
char *temp;
+ if (!bytes)
+ return 0;
+
if (size) {
if (offs > size)
return 0;
@@ -131,6 +134,9 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
int count = min_t(size_t, bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
char *temp;
+ if (!bytes)
+ return 0;
+
if (size) {
if (offs > size)
return 0;