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USB: usbtmc: inhibit corruption

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Limit data copied to userspace to amount requested.  Prevents a faulty
instrument from overwriting user memory.

Signed-off-by: Steve Holland <sdh4@iastate.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Steve Holland 2009-06-18 17:37:49 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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commit 92d07e422d
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drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c
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@ -473,6 +473,10 @@ static ssize_t usbtmc_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
n_characters = this_part;
}
/* Bound amount of data received by amount of data requested */
if (n_characters > this_part)
n_characters = this_part;
/* Copy buffer to user space */
if (copy_to_user(buf + done, &buffer[12], n_characters)) {
/* There must have been an addressing problem */