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| author |   H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2010-09-07 16:16:18 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -0700 |
| commit | c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2729377678b4f0fa516404eec6c3a87a4fd7c823 /include | |
| parent | Merge branch 'sched/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6.tar.xz linux-dev-c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6.zip | |
compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.
This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.
This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compat.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h index 9ddc8780e8db..5778b559d59c 100644 --- a/include/linux/compat.h +++ b/include/linux/compat.h @@ -360,5 +360,8 @@ extern ssize_t compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(int type, const struct compat_iovec __user *uvector, unsigned long nr_segs, unsigned long fast_segs, struct iovec *fast_pointer, struct iovec **ret_pointer); + +extern void __user *compat_alloc_user_space(unsigned long len); + #endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */ #endif /* _LINUX_COMPAT_H */ |