sysctl: don't overflow the user-supplied buffer with '\0'

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If the string was too long to fit in the user-supplied buffer,
the sysctl layer would zero-terminate it by writing past the
end of the buffer. Don't do that.

Noticed by Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Linus Torvalds 2005-12-30 17:18:53 -08:00

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