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-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index a19308604145..3861bcec41ff 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1348,11 +1348,10 @@ static ssize_t comm_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
struct task_struct *p;
char buffer[TASK_COMM_LEN];
+ const size_t maxlen = sizeof(buffer) - 1;
memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
- if (count > sizeof(buffer) - 1)
- count = sizeof(buffer) - 1;
- if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count))
+ if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count > maxlen ? maxlen : count))
return -EFAULT;
p = get_proc_task(inode);