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From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86: uaccess_64: fix return value in __copy_from_user()
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:06:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491CDD0C.60405@ct.jp.nec.com> (raw)

From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>

__copy_from_user() will return invalid value 16 when it fails to
access user space and the size is 10.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
index 543ba88..84210c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ int __copy_from_user(void *dst, const void __user *src, unsigned size)
 		return ret;
 	case 10:
 		__get_user_asm(*(u64 *)dst, (u64 __user *)src,
-			       ret, "q", "", "=r", 16);
+			       ret, "q", "", "=r", 10);
 		if (unlikely(ret))
 			return ret;
 		__get_user_asm(*(u16 *)(8 + (char *)dst),
-- 
1.5.6


             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-14  2:06 Hiroshi Shimamoto [this message]
2008-11-18 21:29 ` [PATCH] x86: uaccess_64: fix return value in __copy_from_user() Ingo Molnar

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