> >     /*
> > +    * No partial write.
> >      * Enough data must be present.
> >      */
> >     if (*ppos != 0)
> >             return -EINVAL;
> > +   if (count == 0 || count > PAGE_SIZE)
> > +           return -EINVAL;
> >  
> >     data = memdup_user_nul(buf, count);
> >     if (IS_ERR(data))
> > 
> 
> Doesn't this change break legitimate requests like
> 
>   char buffer[20000];
> 
>   memset(buffer, ' ', sizeof(buffer));
>   memcpy(buffer + sizeof(buffer) - 10, "foo", 3);
>   write(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
> 
> ?

It does, in this case. Then I need to patch another version with
whitespace stripping before, after label. I just followed the same thing
that I see in security/selinux/selinuxfs.c sel_write_enforce() etc.

It has the same memdup_user_nul() and count >= PAGE_SIZE check prior to that.

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