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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: put_user: fix possible data corruption in put_user
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:01:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505090126.GD3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399270438-26181-1-git-send-email-a.ryabinin@samsung.com>

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:13:58AM +0400, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> According to arm procedure call standart r2 register is call-cloberred.
> So after the result of x expression was put into r2 any following
> function call in p may overwrite r2. To fix this, the result of p
> expression must be saved to the temporary variable before the
> assigment x expression to __r2.

This and the patch make no sense.  You talk about r2, but you're doing
nothing with r2 in the patch.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-05  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05  6:13 [PATCH] arm: put_user: fix possible data corruption in put_user Andrey Ryabinin
2014-05-05  9:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2014-05-05 10:50   ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-05-05 13:45     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-05-05 14:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-05-06  7:11   ` [PATCHv2] " Andrey Ryabinin
2014-05-06 20:13     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-05-07 13:19       ` Andrey Ryabinin

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