svn commit: r267993 - head/sys/kern

[Hans Petter Selasky]

Author: hselasky
Date: Sat Jun 28 03:59:04 2014
New Revision: 267993
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267993

Log:
  Fix regression issue after r267961. Handle special string case for
  SYSCTLs like previously.
  
  MFC after:	2 weeks
  Reported by:	several people

Modified:
  head/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c

Modified: head/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c	Sat Jun 28 03:56:17 2014	(r267992)
+++ head/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c	Sat Jun 28 03:59:04 2014	(r267993)
@@ -1210,9 +1210,12 @@ sysctl_handle_string(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS
 	size_t outlen;
 	int error = 0;
 
-	/* check for zero-length buffer */
+	/*
+	 * A zero-length buffer indicates a fixed size read-only
+	 * string:
+	 */
 	if (arg2 == 0)
-		return (ENOMEM);
+		arg2 = strlen((char *)arg1) + 1;
 
 	if (req->oldptr != NULL) {
 		char *tmparg;