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* [PATCH] check copy_to_user return value in raw1394
@ 2004-10-10  0:12 Jesper Juhl
  2004-10-10  0:22 ` Jesper Juhl
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Juhl @ 2004-10-10  0:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel


Here's a proposed patch to make sure we check the return value of 
copy_to_user in raw1394.c::raw1394_read
I've changed __copy_to_user into copy_to_user since I don't see where we 
would otherwhise be doing the access_ok checking...
Please review this patch before applying.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>

diff -up linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk9-orig/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk9/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c
--- linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk9-orig/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c	2004-09-30 05:03:45.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk9/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c	2004-10-10 02:05:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ static ssize_t raw1394_read(struct file 
         struct file_info *fi = (struct file_info *)file->private_data;
         struct list_head *lh;
         struct pending_request *req;
+        ssize_t ret;
 
         if (count != sizeof(struct raw1394_request)) {
                 return -EINVAL;
@@ -443,10 +444,15 @@ static ssize_t raw1394_read(struct file 
                         req->req.error = RAW1394_ERROR_MEMFAULT;
                 }
         }
-        __copy_to_user(buffer, &req->req, sizeof(req->req));
+        if(copy_to_user(buffer, &req->req, sizeof(req->req))) {
+		ret = -EFAULT;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
+        ret = (ssize_t)sizeof(struct raw1394_request);
+out:
         free_pending_request(req);
-        return sizeof(struct raw1394_request);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 


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