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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2014-01-22 23:04:33 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-02-06 11:22:21 -0800
commitafb6162fa801161e5842a700aa1432e5921f6794 (patch)
tree9280ff2a5a6ed498c0640eb7456b241577a13744 /arch
parent18fe5f72e8cd2f549002ada925c1a43daafbf4c1 (diff)
alpha: fix broken network checksum
commit 0ef38d70d4118b2ce1a538d14357be5ff9dc2bbd upstream. The patch 3ddc5b46a8e90f3c9251338b60191d0a804b0d92 breaks networking on alpha (there is a follow-up fix 5cfe8f1ba5eebe6f4b6e5858cdb1a5be4f3272a6, but networking is still broken even with the second patch). The patch 3ddc5b46a8e90f3c9251338b60191d0a804b0d92 makes csum_partial_copy_from_user check the pointer with access_ok. However, csum_partial_copy_from_user is called also from csum_partial_copy_nocheck and csum_partial_copy_nocheck is called on kernel pointers and it is supposed not to check pointer validity. This bug results in ssh session hangs if the system is loaded and bulk data are printed to ssh terminal. This patch fixes csum_partial_copy_nocheck to call set_fs(KERNEL_DS), so that access_ok in csum_partial_copy_from_user accepts kernel-space addresses. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/lib/csum_partial_copy.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/lib/csum_partial_copy.c b/arch/alpha/lib/csum_partial_copy.c
index ffb19b7da999..9df43dfe511e 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/lib/csum_partial_copy.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/lib/csum_partial_copy.c
@@ -378,6 +378,11 @@ csum_partial_copy_from_user(const void __user *src, void *dst, int len,
__wsum
csum_partial_copy_nocheck(const void *src, void *dst, int len, __wsum sum)
{
- return csum_partial_copy_from_user((__force const void __user *)src,
- dst, len, sum, NULL);
+ __wsum checksum;
+ mm_segment_t oldfs = get_fs();
+ set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
+ checksum = csum_partial_copy_from_user((__force const void __user *)src,
+ dst, len, sum, NULL);
+ set_fs(oldfs);
+ return checksum;
}