From c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:16:18 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Tony Luck Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: --- include/linux/compat.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/compat.h') 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 */ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b