Commit 247576bf authored by Alexander Egorenkov's avatar Alexander Egorenkov Committed by Alexander Gordeev
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s390/ipl: Do not accept z/VM CP diag X'008' cmds longer than max length



The old implementation of vmcmd sysfs string attributes truncated passed
z/VM CP diagnose X'008' commands which were longer than the max allowed
number of characters but the reported number of written characters was
still equal to the entire length of a given string. This can result in
silent failures of some s390-tools (e.g. dumpconf) which can be very hard
to detect. Therefore, this commit makes a write attempt to a vmcmd sysfs
attribute
* fail with E2BIG error if a given string is longer than the maximum
  allowed one
* never destroy the old data in the vmcmd sysfs attribute if the new data
  doesn't fit into it entirely
* return the actual number of written characters if it succeeds

Reviewed-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
parent 72935e3a
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