From c5642f4bbae30122beb696e723f6da273caa570e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Smalley Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:02:23 -0400 Subject: selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 00:05 -0400, Eamon Walsh wrote: > Recent versions of coreutils have bumped the read buffer size from 4K to > 32K in several of the utilities. > > This means that "cat /selinux/booleans/xserver_object_manager" no longer > works, it returns "Invalid argument" on F11. getsebool works fine. > > sel_read_bool has a check for "count > PAGE_SIZE" that doesn't seem to > be present in the other read functions. Maybe it could be removed? Yes, that check is obsoleted by the conversion of those functions to using simple_read_from_buffer(), which will reduce count if necessary to what is available in the buffer. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: James Morris --- security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'security') diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c index 8d4007f..b4fc506 100644 --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c @@ -803,10 +803,6 @@ static ssize_t sel_read_bool(struct file *filep, char __user *buf, goto out; } - if (count > PAGE_SIZE) { - ret = -EINVAL; - goto out; - } page = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); if (!page) { ret = -ENOMEM; -- cgit v1.1