Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the …

…buf size"

This reverts commit b56a39a.

A better patch from Jan will follow this to resolve the issue.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

kernel/printk.c

@@ -880,9 +880,7 @@ static int syslog_print(char __user *buf, int size)
 	syslog_seq++;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock);
 
-	if (len > size)
-		len = -EINVAL;
-	else if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
+	if (len > 0 && copy_to_user(buf, text, len))
 		len = -EFAULT;
 
 	kfree(text);