From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: hch@lst.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: use vmalloc for our kernel buffer
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:59:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200813145941.GJ17456@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200813145305.805730-1-josef@toxicpanda.com>
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:53:05AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> +/**
> + * vmemdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space and NUL-terminate
vmemdup_user_nul()
> +void *vmemdup_user_nul(const void __user *src, size_t len)
> +{
> + void *p;
> +
> + p = kvmalloc(len, GFP_USER);
len+1, shirley?
> + if (!p)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> + if (copy_from_user(p, src, len)) {
> + kvfree(p);
> + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
> + }
I think you forgot
p[len] = '\0';
> + return p;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmemdup_user_nul);
> +
> /**
> * strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
> * @s: The string to duplicate
> --
> 2.24.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-13 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-13 14:53 [PATCH] proc: use vmalloc for our kernel buffer Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 14:59 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-08-13 15:08 ` Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 15:33 ` [PATCH][v2] " Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-13 15:40 ` Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 15:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-13 16:20 ` Al Viro
2020-08-13 17:19 ` Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 17:31 ` Al Viro
2020-08-13 17:36 ` Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 21:10 ` David Laight
2020-08-13 21:31 ` Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 16:19 ` [PATCH] " David Laight
2020-08-13 16:21 ` Al Viro
2020-08-13 17:08 ` Josef Bacik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-10 15:54 Josef Bacik
2021-02-10 17:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-10 18:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
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