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Today, proc_do_large_bitmap() truncates a large write input buffer to PAGE_SIZE - 1, which may result in misparsed numbers at the (truncated) end of the buffer. Further, it fails to notify the caller that the buffer was truncated, so it doesn't get called iteratively to finish the entire input buffer. Tell the caller if there's more work to do by adding the skipped amount back to left/*lenp before returning. To fix the misparsing, reset the position if we have completely consumed a truncated buffer (or if just one char is left, which may be a "-" in a range), and ask the caller to come back for more. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320222831.8243-7-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.