Merge tag 'sound-4.1-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai...

[deliverable/linux.git] / lib / strnlen_user.c

diff --git a/lib/strnlen_user.c b/lib/strnlen_user.c
index 11649615c50504cb5976d58c8bf012d563bf2bbc..fe9a32591c2498b6266c2fc4753521fb469c876a 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -90,8 +90,15 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const char __user *src, unsigned long count,
  * Get the size of a NUL-terminated string in user space.
  *
  * Returns the size of the string INCLUDING the terminating NUL.
- * If the string is too long, returns 'count+1'.
+ * If the string is too long, returns a number larger than @count. User
+ * has to check the return value against "> count".
  * On exception (or invalid count), returns 0.
+ *
+ * NOTE! You should basically never use this function. There is
+ * almost never any valid case for using the length of a user space
+ * string, since the string can be changed at any time by other
+ * threads. Use "strncpy_from_user()" instead to get a stable copy
+ * of the string.
  */
 long strnlen_user(const char __user *str, long count)
 {