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authorJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2011-08-18 22:20:45 +0000
committerJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2011-08-18 22:20:45 +0000
commitf55d3fbe8438d73a393729763a4abca5b72233a2 (patch)
treea8ee9be64f5c495066e35ec20358a668de26cc4a /sys
parent672d7ddbcc406da93d22b0e74ee5d70659bd69ef (diff)
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One of the general principles of the sysctl(3) API is that a user can
query the needed size for a sysctl result by passing in a NULL old pointer and a valid oldsize. The kern.proc.args sysctl handler broke this assumption by not calling SYSCTL_OUT() if the old pointer was NULL. Approved by: re (kib) MFC after: 3 days
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=224986
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r--sys/kern/kern_proc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_proc.c b/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
index 91b14a931505..c84c5ae776db 100644
--- a/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_proc.c
@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ sysctl_kern_proc_args(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
pa = p->p_args;
pargs_hold(pa);
PROC_UNLOCK(p);
- if (req->oldptr != NULL && pa != NULL)
+ if (pa != NULL)
error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, pa->ar_args, pa->ar_length);
pargs_drop(pa);
if (error != 0 || req->newptr == NULL)