From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: + fs-compat_rw_copy_check_uvector-add-missing-compat_ptr-call.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:50:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005281650.o4SGolVs000932@imap1.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
The patch titled
fs/compat_rw_copy_check_uvector: add missing compat_ptr call
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-compat_rw_copy_check_uvector-add-missing-compat_ptr-call.patch
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Subject: fs/compat_rw_copy_check_uvector: add missing compat_ptr call
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
A call to access_ok is missing a compat_ptr conversion. Introduced with
b83733639a494d5f42fa00a2506563fbd2d3015d "compat: factor out
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev"
fs/compat.c: In function 'compat_rw_copy_check_uvector':
fs/compat.c:629: warning: passing argument 1 of '__access_ok' makes pointer from integer without a cast
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/compat.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/compat.c~fs-compat_rw_copy_check_uvector-add-missing-compat_ptr-call fs/compat.c
--- a/fs/compat.c~fs-compat_rw_copy_check_uvector-add-missing-compat_ptr-call
+++ a/fs/compat.c
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ ssize_t compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(int
tot_len += len;
if (tot_len < tmp) /* maths overflow on the compat_ssize_t */
goto out;
- if (!access_ok(vrfy_dir(type), buf, len)) {
+ if (!access_ok(vrfy_dir(type), compat_ptr(buf), len)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com are
origin.patch
s390-convert-cpu-notifier-to-return-encapsulate-errno-value.patch
fs-compat_rw_copy_check_uvector-add-missing-compat_ptr-call.patch
linux-next.patch
drivers-s390-net-use-memdup_user.patch
vfs-introduce-fmode_neg_offset-for-allowing-negative-f_pos.patch
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