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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2010-09-07 16:16:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2011-01-06 18:07:49 -0500 |
| commit | 92d8c047c17986afef182f22b9a95a2835aadb54 (patch) | |
| tree | dca6be1ce30ac83566903a7814c2bacd5c4efa10 /include | |
| parent | 71f45ea268894b70ef3e4a597fe78ab22a9c061a (diff) | |
compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
commit c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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 168f7daa7bde..c76644178826 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 */ |