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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2010-09-07 23:16:18 (GMT) |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2010-09-14 23:08:45 (GMT) |
commit | c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 (patch) | |
tree | 2729377678b4f0fa516404eec6c3a87a4fd7c823 /kernel | |
parent | bfa88ea7ee9e6b4fd673e45a8cc0a8e0b7ef4761 (diff) | |
download | linux-c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6.tar.xz |
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 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/compat.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c index e167efc..c9e2ec0 100644 --- a/kernel/compat.c +++ b/kernel/compat.c @@ -1126,3 +1126,24 @@ compat_sys_sysinfo(struct compat_sysinfo __user *info) return 0; } + +/* + * Allocate user-space memory for the duration of a single system call, + * in order to marshall parameters inside a compat thunk. + */ +void __user *compat_alloc_user_space(unsigned long len) +{ + void __user *ptr; + + /* If len would occupy more than half of the entire compat space... */ + if (unlikely(len > (((compat_uptr_t)~0) >> 1))) + return NULL; + + ptr = arch_compat_alloc_user_space(len); + + if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ptr, len))) + return NULL; + + return ptr; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(compat_alloc_user_space); |