linux/arch
H. Peter Anvin c41d68a513 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>
2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
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alpha alpha: Fix printk format errors 2010-09-01 11:25:17 -04:00
arm Merge branch 'at91-fixes-for-linus' of git://github.com/at91linux/linux-2.6-at91 2010-09-10 07:24:51 -07:00
avr32 Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
blackfin Blackfin: bf52x/bf54x boards: drop unused nand page size 2010-08-27 16:08:43 -04:00
cris Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
frv Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
h8300 h8300: Fix missing consts in kernel_execve() 2010-09-07 13:52:28 -07:00
ia64 compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
m32r Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
m68k m68k,m68knommu: Wire up fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, and prlimit64 2010-09-13 20:28:45 +02:00
m68knommu m68k,m68knommu: Wire up fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, and prlimit64 2010-09-13 20:28:45 +02:00
microblaze Merge branch 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2010-08-18 09:26:17 -07:00
mips compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
mn10300 arch/mn10300/mm: eliminate NULL dereference 2010-08-23 11:41:24 -07:00
parisc compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
powerpc compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
s390 compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
score Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
sh Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
sparc compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
tile compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2010-08-28 13:55:31 -07:00
x86 compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
xtensa Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/core 2010-08-05 08:45:05 +02:00