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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sg, bsg: mitigate read/write abuse, block uaccess in release
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:40:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180615164009.GD30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180615152335.208202-1-jannh@google.com>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 05:23:35PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:

> I've mostly copypasted ib_safe_file_access() over as
> scsi_safe_file_access() because I couldn't find a good common header -
> please tell me if you know a better way.
> The duplicate pr_err_once() calls are so that each of them fires once;
> otherwise, this would probably have to be a macro.
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> ---

WTF do you mean, in ->release()?  That makes no sense whatsoever -
what kind of copy_{to,from}_user() would be possible in there?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-15 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-15 15:23 [PATCH] sg, bsg: mitigate read/write abuse, block uaccess in release Jann Horn
2018-06-15 16:40 ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-06-15 16:44   ` Jann Horn
2018-06-15 16:53     ` Al Viro
2018-06-15 17:10       ` Al Viro
2018-06-15 17:13         ` Jann Horn
2018-06-15 20:47   ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-06-18 15:26     ` Benjamin Block
2018-06-18 15:37     ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-18 16:16       ` Al Viro
2018-06-18 16:23         ` Jens Axboe
2018-06-21 12:34       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 12:51         ` Jann Horn
2018-06-21 13:03           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 14:07         ` Jens Axboe
2018-07-08 14:58           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-10 20:53             ` Jann Horn
2018-07-11  6:33               ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-15 16:49 ` Al Viro
2018-06-15 16:58   ` Jann Horn
2018-06-15 17:02     ` Jann Horn
2018-06-21 12:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21 12:54   ` Jann Horn

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