linux/arch/sparc
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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boot Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-06-16 18:08:13 +02:00
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
include/asm compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok() 2010-09-14 16:08:45 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2010-09-11 08:01:09 -07:00
lib sparc64: Make lock backoff really a NOP on UP builds. 2010-08-18 22:53:26 -07:00
math-emu Revert "endian: #define __BYTE_ORDER" 2010-05-26 08:30:15 -07:00
mm kmap_atomic: make kunmap_atomic() harder to misuse 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
oprofile sparc: using HZ needs an include of linux/param.h 2009-10-05 00:46:08 -07:00
prom sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer. 2010-08-23 23:10:57 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 13:18:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug sparc: Kill user copy check code. 2010-08-09 00:45:46 -07:00
Makefile sparc: Set UTS_MACHINE correctly. 2009-12-05 17:17:55 -08:00