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From: Felipe W Damasio <felipewd@terra.com.br>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check copy_from_user return value in sony535
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:05:58 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8192E6.1010302@terra.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A6XJm-0003Vi-00.adobriyan-mail-ru@f20.mail.ru>

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	Hi Alexey,

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Fell free to nuke verify_area() right before 'return err;' ;-)

	Right :)

> Moving copy_from_user() before spin_up_drive() then also seems right thing to do.

	Oh, ok.

	Jens, please apply this patch instead.

	Thanks Alexey,

Felipe

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--- linux-2.6.0-test6/drivers/cdrom/sonycd535.c.orig	2003-10-06 10:46:56.000000000 -0300
+++ linux-2.6.0-test6/drivers/cdrom/sonycd535.c	2003-10-06 13:03:13.000000000 -0300
@@ -1153,12 +1153,10 @@
 		break;
 
 	case CDROMPLAYMSF:			/* Play starting at the given MSF address. */
-		err = verify_area(VERIFY_READ, (char *)arg, 6);
-		if (err)
-			return err;
+		if (copy_from_user(params, (void *)arg, 6))
+			return -EFAULT;
 		spin_up_drive(status);
 		set_drive_mode(SONY535_AUDIO_DRIVE_MODE, status);
-		copy_from_user(params, (void *)arg, 6);
 
 		/* The parameters are given in int, must be converted */
 		for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {

       reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1A6XJm-0003Vi-00.adobriyan-mail-ru@f20.mail.ru>
2003-10-06 16:05 ` Felipe W Damasio [this message]
2003-10-06 16:10   ` [PATCH] check copy_from_user return value in sony535 Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 13:53 Felipe W Damasio
2003-10-06 13:52 ` Jens Axboe

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