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From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][v5][PATCH 8/8]: Define clone_with_pids() syscall
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:19:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zl95l2oz.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090907211700.GH6685@us.ibm.com> (Sukadev Bhattiprolu's message of "Mon\, 7 Sep 2009 14\:17\:00 -0700")

Suka,

I ran across an issue with this on ppc64.

> +static pid_t *copy_target_pids(void __user *upid_setp)
> +{
> +	int j;
> +	int rc;
> +	int size;
> +	int unum_pids;		/* # of pids specified by user */
> +	int knum_pids;		/* # of pids needed in kernel */
> +	pid_t *target_pids;
> +	struct pid_set pid_set;
> +
> +	if (!upid_setp)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	rc = copy_from_user(&pid_set, upid_setp, sizeof(pid_set));

This doesn't work on a 64-bit kernel when the process is 32-bit and uses
the definition of struct pid_set provided in types.h:

+struct pid_set {
+	int num_pids;
+	pid_t *pids;
+};

Shouldn't the pids field be u64 or some other type of fixed size?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-08 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07 21:13 [RFC][v5] clone_with_pids() system call Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-07 21:13 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 1/8]: Factor out code to allocate pidmap page Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-07 21:14 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 2/8]: Have alloc_pidmap() return actual error code Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-07 21:14 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 3/8] Make pid_max a pid_ns property Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-07 21:15 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 4/8]: Add target_pid parameter to alloc_pidmap() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-08 14:16   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-09-07 21:15 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 5/8]: Add target_pids parameter to alloc_pid() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-07 21:15 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 6/8]: Add target_pids parameter to copy_process() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-07 21:16 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 7/8]: Define do_fork_with_pids() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-07 21:17 ` [RFC][v5][PATCH 8/8]: Define clone_with_pids() syscall Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-08 18:19   ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2009-09-09 12:19     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-09-09 15:51       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-09 18:03         ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-09-09 18:01           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-09 18:34           ` Linus Torvalds

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