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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/statmount07: drop "invalid buffer size" test
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:50:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zw46_xyBaWFPMShv@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <892adc7c5b174221bf10e796ad29adaaf1559e5c.1728978957.git.jstancek@redhat.com>

Hi!
> The manpage doesn't say that 'smbuf' needs to be valid
> for entire range of 'bufsize'.
> 
> This check relies on access_ok() check, which can be skipped
> on some arches/configs, for example on s390x with
> CONFIG_ALTERNATE_USER_ADDRESS_SPACE=y. Test then fails with:
>   statmount07.c:117: TFAIL: invalid buffer size succeeded

And does it fail later on in the copy_to_user() if the buffer is
physically not accesible?

We may add a test that would look like:

| page mapped rw | page mapped read only |
             ^
	     buf pointer starts here

What do you think?

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-15  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-15  7:57 [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/statmount07: drop "invalid buffer size" test Jan Stancek
2024-10-15  9:50 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2024-10-15 10:10   ` Jan Stancek
2024-10-15 10:59     ` Cyril Hrubis
2024-10-15 11:51       ` Jan Stancek
2024-10-15 11:48 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/statmount07: change " Jan Stancek
2024-10-15 12:07   ` Cyril Hrubis
2024-10-15 12:41     ` Jan Stancek
2024-10-15 13:43       ` Cyril Hrubis
2024-10-15 13:54         ` Jan Stancek
2024-10-18 10:23           ` Petr Vorel
2024-10-18 10:25             ` Jan Stancek
2024-10-15 13:45   ` Cyril Hrubis

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