From c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:16:18 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Tony Luck Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: --- kernel/compat.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c index e167efce8423..c9e2ec0b34a8 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); -- cgit v1.2.2