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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/15] sanitize AUDIT_MQ_SENDRECV
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:03:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217080315.GZ28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081216235656.d7985f1d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:56:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +		if (copy_from_user(&ts, u_abs_timeout, 
> > +					sizeof(struct timespec)))
> 
> Well that's odd.  afacit timespec has different sizes on 32-bit and
> 64-bit userspace.
> 
> But the old audit code did this copy too, and it presumably worked.

compat_mq_timedsend() et.al. essentially do copy_in_user() converting to
64bit and theh call sys_mq_...().  So you get kernel-native layout in
the log.

Similar for notification in compat_mq_notify(), etc.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17  5:12 [PATCH 7/15] sanitize AUDIT_MQ_SENDRECV Al Viro
2008-12-17  7:40 ` James Morris
2008-12-17  9:40   ` Al Viro
2008-12-17  7:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-17  8:03   ` Al Viro [this message]

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